Weledarii - Weledarii

Japanese: ウェレダリイ - うぇれだりい
Weledarii - Weledarii

…Even in the Roman period, according to Caesar, couriers were sent at regular intervals, and events in Genabum (now Orléans) were reported to Auvergne on the same day. There were also horse-riding couriers (veredarii), and two letters that Caesar sent to Cicero in Rome from Brittany arrived on the 26th and 28th of each day. During the Roman Empire, a courier system called the cursus publique was established, and later, post offices were equipped with horses, fast carriages called rhedas, and carts called clabulares, and the number of horses could reach as many as 20. …

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Japanese:

…ローマ時代でもカエサルによれば一定の距離をおいて飛脚が置かれ,ゲナブム(現,オルレアン)で起こったことがその日のうちにオーベルニュまで伝えられた。馬に乗った飛脚(ウェレダリイveredarii)もあり,カエサルがブルターニュからローマのキケロにあてた2通の手紙はそれぞれ26日と28日で着いている。 ローマ帝政期にはクルスス・プブリクスという飛脚制度が置かれ,のちには駅逓に馬やレダrhedaといわれた速い車,荷車クラブラレclabulareも備えられ,馬は20頭に達することもあった。…

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