with scythes fastened to the yokes

    quadrīgae ārum, f    [for quadriiugae], a team of four, four-abreast, four-in-hand, four-horse team.—Of horses, with or without the car or vehicle, rarely of the car alone: duabus admotis quadrigis, in currūs earum inligat Mettium, L.: Glauci Potniades malis membra absumpsere quadrigae, V.: curru quadrigarum vehi: cum carceribus sese effudere quadrigae, V.: falcatae, with scythes fastened to the yokes, L.: roseis Aurora quadrigis, V.: Apta quadrigis equa, H.—Fig., a swift car: quadrigis poeticis, i. e. with utmost speed: navibus atque Quadrigis petimus bene vivere, i. e. by every means in our power, H.