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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 2956689, member: 10461&quot;]I had never seen any of these exotically-propelled conveyances until [USER=56859]@TIF[/USER] mentioned them.&nbsp;&nbsp; Crazy stuff.&nbsp; I love it.&nbsp; Centaurs?&nbsp; Cupids? Serpents?&nbsp; I guess in ancient times you could just lasso any passing beasties, real or mythological, hitch &#039;em to your chariot to make a biga or quadriga out of &#039;em, crack the whip, and off you went!</p><p><br /></p><p>The critters doing the towing also seem remarkably cooperative.&nbsp; Must&#039;ve been some magic involved.&nbsp; Or drugs, maybe.</p><p><br /></p><p>Yeah.&nbsp; Drugs.&nbsp; That&#039;s gotta be it.</p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>&quot;Oh, hey, Mister Centaur.&nbsp; Wouldn&#039;t you like to snack upon these lovely candied lotus flowers?&quot;</i></p><p><br /></p><p>Or maybe the <i>engravers of the coins </i>ate the lotus flowers, but how wonderful that they did, and left us with these flights of fancy.</p><p><br /></p><p>I wanna see a biga of butterflies.&nbsp; Better yet, griffins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Or capricorns towing a galley. </p><p><br /></p><p>Or, if you <i>really </i>wanna impress me, a quadriga of cats.&nbsp; Not lions or panthers, mind you.&nbsp; <i>House</i>cats.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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