Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Rheda

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

RHE'DA. A large and roomy carriage upon four wheels (Isidor. Orig. xx. 12.), and furnished with several seats, so as to be adapted for the transport of a large party, with their luggage and necessaries (Juv. iii. 10. Mart. iii. 47. 5.). It appears to have been in very general use amongst the Romans, both for town and country (Cic. Mil. 20. Id. Att. vi. 1. Ib. v. 17. Suet. Jul. 57.); and probably resembled the French char-à-banc with a cover overhead, for the carriage itself, as well as its name, was of Gallic original (Quint. i. 5. 68.). The annexed illustration (Rheda/1.1) is not copied from any ancient authority, nor is it altogether imaginary, being composed by Ginzrot (Wagen und Fahrwerke, tab. 20.), after the models of several very similar carriages which appear on the columns of Trajan and Antoninus; but is here introduced in order to convey a proximate notion of the general character of the conveyance in question, which, though not altogether genuine, will still serve as a useful illustration to the various passages above referred to.

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