CARPENTUM, a cart; also a two-wheeled
carriage, enclosed, and with an arched or
sloping cover overhead. The carpentnm was
used to convey the Roman matrons in the
public festal processions ; and this was a high
distinction, since the use of carriages in the
city was entirely forbidden during the whole
of the republican period. Hence the privil^e
of riding in a carpentum in the public festivals
was sometimes granted to females of the impe-
rial family. This carriage contained seats for



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two, and sometimefl for three perflons, besides
the coachman. It -^^as commonly drawn by
a i>air of mules, bat more rarely by oxen or
horses, and sometimes by four horses like a
quadriga. — Carpenta, or covered carts, were
much used by the Britons, the Gauls, and
other northern nations. These, together with
tlie carts of the more common form, including
baggage-waggons, appear to hare been com-
prehended under the term Carrie or earra,
which is the Celtic name with a Latin termi-
nation. The Gauls took a great multitude of
them on their military expeditions, and when
they were encamped, arranged them in close
order, so as to form extensive lines of circum-.
-vallation.
CARElGO, a kind of fortification, consist-
ing of a great number of waggons placed
round an army. It was employed by bar-
barous nations, as, for instance, the Scythians,
Gauls, and Goths. Carrago also signifies some-
times the baggage of an army.
CARRtJCA, a carriage, the name of which
only occurs under the emperors. It appears
to have been a species of rheda [Rheda],
had four wheels, and was used in travelling.
