Chiramaxium
χειράμαξα
Chiramaxium (χειράμαξα, χειραμάξιον), any wheeled carriage drawn by the hand. Its use may have varied between a perambulator
for children and a Bath chair
for invalids: the only classical passage (Petron. 28) leaves this point uncertain.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.