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Eq´ui`tes

n. pl

1.

(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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But when the equites and the novi homines had extended the governing classes by adding to the numbers of the Patricians, the State came to ruin.

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