quadriga

quadriga, nelivaljakko, taisteluvaunut|p

nelivaljakko puhekieltä A Roman racing chariot drawn by four horses abreast.
1830, Charles Taylor, Calmet's Dictionary of the Holy Bible, in five volumes, volume III, page 425

In the Vatican Library is a vase of terra cotta, on whose upper part we see delineated the sun and moon, in a quadriga, which proceeds forward travels, voyages, fulfils its course upon a ship. (..) Both these deities stand in a quadriga, which indeed is the vehicle proper to the sun, insomuch that the Rhodians every year threw into the sea a quadriga, dedicated to this divinity.

On another denarius we see Victory holding a wreath and driving a quadriga(..)