CARRIAGE Copy link • CARRIAGEvectio, gestatio: portatio (as an act; SYN. under CARRY): vectura (also money paid for carriage; also vecturae pretium). To pay for the carriage, pro vectura solvere : vehiculum (of any sort): currus (with wheels, and formed for rapid motion): chiramaxium (for children to be drawn by the hand, Petronius, 28, 4): carpentum (one of the most ancient carriages, ornamented, for ladies): currus arcuatus (carriage with an arched covering, for the Flamines, Liv., 1, 21): pilentum (a lofty four-wheeled carriage for matrons, when they carried with them the vessels used in sacred rites, Servius): tensa, or thensa (a four-wheeled carriage, on which the images of the gods were carried in the Ludi Circenses with cushions, pulvinaria): cisium (a two-wheeled carriage for fast travelling, a cabriolet): rheda (a Gallic word; a larger four-wheeled carriage, to contain several persons with their luggage). Gait, incessus.