The arts in the Middle Ages, and at the period of the Renaissance (1875)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884, Dafforne, James, d. 1880 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 149
CARRIAGES AND SADDLERY chariot races, ^liich took place at tlie solemn games in Greece, have alwayslieen justly celebrated ; as were those which continued in Rome and in allthe ffreat cities of the Roman world until the fifth or sixth century. We are disposed to believe that the use of the… … Fig. 72.— The Carruca, or Pleasure-Carriage, drawn by a Pair of Horses, dating from the Fifth to the TenthCentur)-. (Taken from a MS. of the Ninth Century, in the Roj-al Library at Brussels.) carriage-horse was introduced about the same time. But it seems thatchariots were rarely mounted by any but…
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