in Antiquity, a chariot drawn by two horses abreast. Chariot-races, with two horses, were introduced into the Olympic games in the 93d 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 bigae, the sun in quadrigae. Statues in bigae were at first only allowed to the gods, then to conquerors in the Grecian games; under the Roman emperors, the like statues, with bigae, were decreed and granted to great and well-delivering men, as a kind of half triumph, being erected in most public places of the city. Figures of bigae were also struck on their coins. The drivers of bigae were called bigarii; a marble bust of one Florus a bigarius is still seen at Rome.