Lexicographical Neighbors of Bigae
Literary usage of Bigae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Descriptive Catalogue of a Cabinet of Roman Family Coins Belonging to His by William Henry Smyth (1856)
"... galloping currus-bigae, reaching up to her knees—and of which both wheels are
shown,—holding the reins and a palm-branch. Under the horses a symbol like ..."
2. Laocoon: An Essay Upon the Limits of Painting and Poetry. With Remarks by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1910)
"At one time, I thought that Pliny might, instead of "bigae," have written a Greek
word, ... was turned into "bigae," and so we get "tabula ..."
3. Parochial Antiquities Attempted in the History of Ambrosden, Burcester, and ...by White Kennett, Thomas Delafield by White Kennett, Thomas Delafield (1818)
"BiGAe, bigata. A cart with two wheels, drawn often with one horse. ... If the
later ' biga et quadriga' had answered the elder • bigae et quadrigae,' and ..."
4. The Texts and Versions of John de Plano Carpini and William de Rubruquis by Richard Hakluyt, Charles Raymond Beazley, Willem van Ruysbroeck (1903)
"... bigae viginti pedum : & quando domus erat super bigam ... illos : Axis ю bigae
erat magnus ad modum arboris nauis : Et vnus homo stabat in ostio domus ..."
5. An Elementary Latin Dictionary by Charlton Thomas Lewis, Hugh Macmaster Kingery (1918)
"[bi- + furca], having two prongs, two pronged : ra in us, two-forked, O. : valli, L.
biga, ae (very rare), and bigae, arum,/, ... [bigae], bearing the ..."
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