"Volueri
Carpento rapitur pinguis Damasippus; et ipse
Ipse rotam stringit multo sufflamine Consul."
Again, I find the following lines:—
"Sunt quos curriculo pulverem Olympicum
Collegisse juvat metaque fervidis
Evitata rotis, palmaque nobilis
Terrarum dominos evehit ad Deos."
Which may be thus rendered—"The summit of some men's ambition is to drive four-in-hand."
Propertius, too, exclaims against the tandem as rivalling the curricle—that is, according to some witty translators:—