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Meanings of equites in английском
The lower of the two aristocratic classes of ancient Rome.
Related terms
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Examples for "eques"
Examples for "eques"
1
He summoned the senators and equites to arm, and each eques was to bring two armed slaves.
2
The proudest names of civilized languages when literally translated mean "horseman": eques, caballero, chevalier, cavalier.
3
Senator and eques unceasingly accused each other of venality, and each was beyond doubt right in the charge he made.
4
I was made "Eques" some months ago, but did not think much about it.
1
Thirty thousand were slain, including three thousand Roman Knights, and Labiénus himself.
2
Who can help groaning when he hears Roman knights and senators flattering her like eunuchs?
3
To be eye-witness of Roman knights over which this father had presided like a Tiberius!
4
Who would not groan at hearing that Roman knights and senators fawn upon her like eunuchs?
5
The centurions he promoted to higher ranks, and conferred on the Roman knights the honour of tribunes.
Usage of equites in английском
1
The equites owed much to Gracchus, but they basely deserted him now.
2
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.
4
Sixthly, he took away from the equites and restored to the Senate the judicia.
5
What Sulla did was to supply these decuriae from the senators instead of the equites.
6
It has been before explained that the equites at this time were non-senatorial rich men.
7
The Lex Judiciaria gained over the equites also.
8
As censor he had degraded a man named Asellus, whom Mummius afterwards restored to the equites.
9
How, as a body, the equites veered round alternately to each side, we shall see hereafter.
10
They also acted as paymasters of the equites and of the soldiers on service in each tribe.
11
He summoned the senators and equites to arm, and each eques was to bring two armed slaves.
12
Thirdly, the senators were once more installed in the office of jurymen in room of the Gracchan equites.
13
According to some authorities he made the judices eligible from the equites only, instead of from the Senate.
14
With them fell a thousand equites, commoners of fortune, who had thrown in their lot with the aristocracy.
15
It is said by some that the first class included also thirty-five centuries, or eighteen centuries of equites.
16
The few equites who, since Sylla's time, had made their way into the Senate had yielded to patrician ascendency.
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