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 Chariots or Cars.Charities. 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Charioteers
 
(in Rome) were classed under four factions, distinguished by their liveries:—white, red, sky-blue, and green. Domitian added two more, viz. the golden and the purple.   1
 


 Chariots or Cars.Charities. 

 
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