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.
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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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It has been before explained that the equites at this time were non-senatorial rich men.
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The Lex Judiciaria gained over the equites also.
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As censor he had degraded a man named Asellus, whom Mummius afterwards restored to the equites.
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How, as a body, the equites veered round alternately to each side, we shall see hereafter.
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They also acted as paymasters of the equites and of the soldiers on service in each tribe.
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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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Thirdly, the senators were once more installed in the office of jurymen in room of the Gracchan equites.
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According to some authorities he made the judices eligible from the equites only, instead of from the Senate.
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With them fell a thousand equites, commoners of fortune, who had thrown in their lot with the aristocracy.
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It is said by some that the first class included also thirty-five centuries, or eighteen centuries of equites.
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The few equites who, since Sylla's time, had made their way into the Senate had yielded to patrician ascendency.