Meaning of currus | Babel Free

Definitions

1. chariot, car (more often two-wheeled cars (biga) used in battle and in racing)
   declension-4, masculine
2. wagon, wain
   declension-4, masculine
3. ship, boat
   broadly, declension-4, masculine, poetic
4. the horses drawing a chariot, a team, span
   broadly, declension-4, masculine, poetic
5. a pair of small wheels by which the beam of a plough was supported and guided
   broadly, declension-4, masculine

Equivalents

Examples

“currum agere”

to drive a chariot

“quō simul ac vēnit, frēnātōs curribus anguēs”

And as soon as she has arrived there, she harnesses the bridled serpents to [her] chariots, and wanders dry over the ocean waves. (See Ceres (mythology).)

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