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Meanings of eques in anglès
The lower of the two aristocratic classes of ancient Rome.
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Examples for "equites"
Examples for "equites"
1
The equites owed much to Gracchus, but they basely deserted him now.
2
The higher ranks, senators and equites, grew more and more unused to arms.
3
Remember how he proscribed forty senators and sixteen hundred equites with one stroke.
4
Sixthly, he took away from the equites and restored to the Senate the judicia.
5
What Sulla did was to supply these decuriae from the senators instead of the equites.
1
Thirty thousand were slain, including three thousand Roman Knights, and Labiénus himself.
2
Who can help groaning when he hears Roman knights and senators flattering her like eunuchs?
3
To be eye-witness of Roman knights over which this father had presided like a Tiberius!
4
Who would not groan at hearing that Roman knights and senators fawn upon her like eunuchs?
5
The centurions he promoted to higher ranks, and conferred on the Roman knights the honour of tribunes.
Usage of eques in anglès
1
He summoned the senators and equites to arm, and each eques was to bring two armed slaves.
2
The proudest names of civilized languages when literally translated mean "horseman": eques, caballero, chevalier, cavalier.
3
Senator and eques unceasingly accused each other of venality, and each was beyond doubt right in the charge he made.
4
I was made "Eques" some months ago, but did not think much about it.
Translations for eques
rus
portuguès
català
Eques through the time