Meanings of equestrian order in English

Egypt was ruled by a governor, who was always taken from the equestrian order.

These persons are the equestrian order of poverty; they continue to drive about in cabriolets.

His military organization of the equestrian order was this.

Nor was the attention of the censors confined to the regulation of the senate and the equestrian order.

Plutarch says that he went about with 600 men of the equestrian order, whom he called his anti-Senate.

I can't afford the equestrian order.

His uncle, Claudius, who till then continued in the equestrian order, he took for his colleague in the consulship.

He continually reproached the whole equestrian order, as devoting themselves to nothing but acting on the stage, and fighting as gladiators.

In censuring those of the equestrian order, the same ground was acted upon, but there were very few to whom that disgrace belonged.

There was little probability that the knights admitted to the senate would continue to be in any real sense members of the equestrian order.

All of the equestrian order belonging to the legions who had fought at Cannae, and were then in Sicily, were deprived of their horses.

A farmer was nothing thought of unless he wore top-boots, which seemed a distinguishing mark, as it were, of the equestrian order of agriculture.

At the head of the city-guards, and the youth of the equestrian order, Maximus and Balbinus attempted to cut their way through the seditious multitude.

He is {67} called by the title "most excellent," which ordinarily implies that the person so designated is a member of the " equestrian order."

The Equestrian order, founded substantially on wealth, grew daily in importance.

The Proletariate and the Equestrian Order under the Restoration