in antiquity, a chariot drawn by two horses abreast. Chariot-races, with two horses, were introduced into the Olympic games in the 93rd Olympiad; but the invention was much more ancient, as we find that the heroes in the Iliad fight from chariots of that kind. The moon, night, and the morning, are by mythologists supposed to be carried in biga, the sun in quadriga. Statues in biga were at first only allowed to the gods, then to conquerors in the Grecian games; under the Roman emperors, the like statues, with biga, were decreed and granted to great and well-deserving men, as a kind of half triumph, being erected in most public places of the city. Figures of biga were also struck on their coins. The drivers of biga were called bigarius; a marble bust of one Florus a bigarius is still seen at Rome.