Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Tensa

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. 

TEN'SA or THEN'SA (ἅρμα θεῶν. Gloss. Philox.) A state car drawn by animals, upon which the statues of the gods were transported in solemn procession to the Circensian games (Festus, s. v. Cic. Verr. ii. 7. 72. Suet. Vesp. 5.); as contradistinguished from ferculum, which was carried on the shoulders of men. The illustration (Tensa/1.1), which is copied from a medal of Nerva, will serve to convey a notion of the general style and character of these vehicles; though it cannot be pronounced as a positive example of the thensa, yet no other name occurs so applicable to it as the above.

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