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