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