Usage of "roman knights"

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эквиты

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equites

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cavaller romà

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ordo equester

The lower of the two aristocratic classes of ancient Rome.

Termes relacionats

social class in ancient rome

cavaller romà

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Examples for "equites"

The equites owed much to Gracchus, but they basely deserted him now. 
 The Gracchi Marius and Sulla / Epochs of Ancient History 

The higher ranks, senators and equites, grew more and more unused to arms. 
 The History of Rome, Book V / The Establishment of the Military ... 

Remember how he proscribed forty senators and sixteen hundred equites with one stroke. 
 A Friend of Cæsar: A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Tim... 

Sixthly, he took away from the equites and restored to the Senate the judicia. 
 The Gracchi Marius and Sulla / Epochs of Ancient History 

What Sulla did was to supply these decuriae from the senators instead of the equites. 
 The Gracchi Marius and Sulla / Epochs of Ancient History 

He summoned the senators and equites to arm, and each eques was to bring two armed slaves. 
 The Gracchi Marius and Sulla / Epochs of Ancient History 

The proudest names of civilized languages when literally translated mean "horseman": eques, caballero, chevalier, cavalier. 
 Guide to Life and Literature of the Southwest, with a Few Observ... 

Senator and eques unceasingly accused each other of venality, and each was beyond doubt right in the charge he made. 
 The History of Roman Literature / From the Earliest Period to th... 

I was made "Eques" some months ago, but did not think much about it. 
 Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 

Ús de roman knights en anglès

Thirty thousand were slain, including three thousand Roman Knights, and Labiénus himself. 
 Ancient Rome : from the earliest times down to 476 A. D. 

Who can help groaning when he hears Roman knights and senators flattering her like eunuchs? 
 Dio's Rome, Volume 3 / An Historical Narrative Originally Compos... 

To be eye-witness of Roman knights over which this father had presided like a Tiberius! 
 The Grey Cloak 

Who would not groan at hearing that Roman knights and senators fawn upon her like eunuchs? 
 The Memoirs of Cleopatra 

The centurions he promoted to higher ranks, and conferred on the Roman knights the honour of tribunes. 
 "De Bello Gallico" and Other Commentaries 

Will he embrace the Roman knights? 
 The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 

And all the Roman knights of the waving palm espied them from afar and hailed them with whoops of joy. 
 Cheerful—By Request 

In this tumult, above twenty Roman knights were squeezed to death, with as many matrons, with a great crowd besides. 
 The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 04: Caligula 

If the words be discordant to the station of the speaker, the Roman knights and plebians will raise an immoderate laugh. 
 The Works of Horace 

One day, in such a humour, he caught a glimpse of two Roman knights; he had them arrested and confiscated their property. 
 The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims. Volume 1 (of 2) 

He secured four hundred senators, and six hundred Roman knights, amongst whom were some of unbroken fortunes and unblemished reputation, to act as gladiators. 
 The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 06: Nero 

Then the Roman knights, mounted on horseback, prance before it in beautiful bravery, wheeling to and fro in the dizzy measures of the Pyrrhic dance. 
 The Destiny of the Soul: A Critical History of the Doctrine of a... 

When our military movements bring the Roman knights to Palaestina, in their pride of birth they do not wed the black-eyed daughters of the Jews. 
 An Easter Disciple: The Chronicle of Quintus, the Roman Knight 

XXIII.-Whenday appeared Caesar ordered all the senators and their children, the tribunes of the soldiers, and the Roman knights, to be brought before him. 
 "De Bello Gallico" and Other Commentaries 