Everything about Basterna totally explained
A
basterna was a kind of vehicle, or
litter, in which
Ancient Roman women were carried. It appears to have resembled the
lectica; and the only difference apparently was, that the lectica was carried on the shoulders of slaves, and the basterna by two mules, according to
Isaac Casaubon. Several etymologies of the word have been proposed.
Salmasius proposes it to be derived from the
Greek βαστάζω (Salm.
ad Lamprid. Heliog. 21). A description of a basterna is given by a poet in the
Anth. Lat. iii. 183.
Others call it a kind of
chariot, and say it was drawn by
oxen to go more gently.
Gregory de Tours gives an instance of it being carried by wild
bulls.
The interior was called
cavea, 'cage'; and it had soft cushions or beds. The mode of basterna's passed from
Italy into
Gaul, and then into other countries. Modern
coach or
stagecoach transportation has its origins in the bastera.
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