RHĒDA

or RĒDA, a travelling carriage with four wheels. Like the Covinus and the E edum it was of Gallic origin, and may perhaps contain the same root as the German reiten and our ride . It was the common carriage used by the Romans for travelling, and was frequently made large enough not only to contain many persons, but also baggage and utensils of various kinds. The word Epirhedium , which was formed by the Romans from the Greek preposition ἐπι and the Gallic rheda , is explained by the Scholiast on Juvenal as “ Ornamentum rhedarum aut plaustrum .”