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Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Benna

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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

BEN'NA. A Gaulish word, used to designate a four-wheeled cart or carriage made of wicker-work, and capable of holding several persons, as seen in the example (Benna/1.1) copied from the Column of Antoninus. Festus, s. v. Scheffer, Re Vehic. ii. 21. Compare Cato, R. R. 23. 2. where, however, Schneider reads Maena.

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