1) Cavalry 2) Mounted military units
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The Equites (aka ordo equester, sometimes called `knights` in modern times because of the involvement of horses) constituted the lower of the two aristocratic classes of ancient Rome, ranking below the patricians (patricii), a hereditary caste that monopolized political power during the regal era (to 509 BC) and during the early Republic (to 338.....
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• (n. pl) An order of knights holding a middle place between the senate and the commonalty; members of the Roman equestrian order.
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Latin form for
Equestrian order, originally the cavalry of the ancient Roman army, and later an elite Roman business class. ...
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The order of knights, second in the social scale beneath the senators, descended from the first Republican cavalry officers. In early Roman history, the equestrian class formed the cavalry. However, following the lex Claudia laws of 218 BC, which prevented senators from engaging in commerce, the equestrians stepped into a more commercial role, and …...
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Eq'ui·tes noun pl [ Latin , plural 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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The Equites or 'horse-soldiers' were the richest class of citizens in ancient Rome, who by constitution of Servius Tullius had to serve in the cavalry.
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mounted military units; cavalry. · members of a specially privileged class derived from the ancient Roman cavalry and having status intermediate between those of senatorial rank and the common people.
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