Equites

(definition) by Webster 1913 Tue Dec 21 1999 at 23:27:40

Eq"ui*tes (?) n. pl [L., pl. of eques a horseman.] Rom. Antiq.

An order of knights holding a middle place between the senate and the commonalty; members of the Roman equestrian order.

 

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