Pliny mentions another carriage of imperial Rome—the _carruca_, which had four wheels and was used equally in the city and for long journeys. Nero travelled with great numbers of them—on one occasion with no less than three thousand. In Rome itself the fashionable citizen drove forth in a _carruca_ that was covered with plates of bronze, silver, or even gold. Enormous sums were spent upon their decoration. Painters, sculptors, and embroiderers were employed. Martial speaks of an _aurea carruca_ costing as much as a large farm. The _carruca_, indeed, may be said to correspond with the phaeton, which was so fashionable in England towards the end of the eighteenth century. As with the phaeton, so with the _carruca_—the higher it was built the better pleased was its owner. Various kinds of _carruca_ existed. The _carrucæ argentatæ_ were those granted by Alexander Severus to the senators. There is also mention of a _carruca domestoria_. Unfortunately, however, no contemporary representation of a carriage can definitely be said to be a _carruca_. Little enough, moreover, is known of the two other waggons, the _reda_ and the _benna_. The _reda_ was a large four-wheeled waggon used mainly to convey agricultural produce. It seems to have been brought into Italy from Wallachia. The _benna_ was a cart whose body was formed entirely of basket-work. There is a drawing of it on the column of Antoninus at Rome. A similar vehicle persists to this day in Italy, South Germany, and Belgium, and bears a similar name.