EQUITES

ĕkˈwĭtēz [Lat.,=horsemen], the original cavalry of the Roman army, chosen, according to legend, by Romulus from the three ancient Roman tribes; the equites were selected from the senatorial class on the basis of wealth. During the late republic they numbered 1,800, but during the empire their number more than doubled. A law passed by Caius Sempronius Gracchus in 123 b.c. transferred judicial functions from the senate to the body of equites, who, though later deprived of these powers by Sulla, attained much influence in the state. In the 1st cent. b.c. the equites were a distinct class allowed to engage in business and they allied themselves alternately with the popular and the senatorial parties. During the reign of Augustus, the equites lost their political power.

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The Roman Middle Class in the Republican Period
Book by H. Hill; Greenwood Press, 1974
Subjects: Equestrian Order (Rome)
...to allude to this class the Latin word Equites. This usage should be distinguished from that of equites in italics , which means cavalry. I...II. THE EIGHTEEN CENTURIES OF Equites Equo Publico 32...
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The Roman Middle Class in the Republican Period
Book by H. Hill; Blackwell, 1952
Subjects: Equestrian Order (Rome)
...to allude to this class the Latin word Equites. This usage should be distinguished from that of equites in italics , which means cavalry. I...II THE EIGHTEEN CENTURIES OF Equites Equo Publico 32...
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The Fall of the Roman Republic and Related Essays
Book by P. A. Brunt; Clarendon Press, 1988
Subjects: Rome--Politics And Government--265-30 B.C
...various articles, including those on the Equites which appeared in Proceedings of the...3. The Equites in the Late Republic 144...for which the support of senate and Equites was indispensable; the change entailed...
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Riding for Caesar: The Roman Emperors' Horse Guards
Book by Michael P. Speidel; Batsford, 1994
...monuments has come to light, making the equites singulares Augusti the best-known Roman...Batavi, Germani corporis custodes, and equites singulares Augusti were but different...swimming rivers in full battle gear, Caesars equites Germani on the Nile, too, may have been...
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From the Gracchi to Nero: A History of Rome from 133 B.C. to A.D. 68
Book by H. H. Scullard; University Paperbacks, 1963
Subjects: Rome--History
...Estate, that of the so-called Knights Equites . 7 They owed their rise partly to...governing and the commercial classes. The Equites had originally formed Romes cavalry...of professional financial agents. The Equites thus received many opportunities for...
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Not Before Homosexuality: The Materiality of the Cinaedus and the Roman Law Against Love Between Men
Journal article by Amy Richlin; Journal of the History of Sexuality, Vol. 3, 1993
Subjects: Sex Customs--History, Sexology
...especially to the lists of senators and equites , or "equestrians" (originally cavalry...recognitio equitum , the review of the equites . For each of these men (and Augustus...increasingly to concern the senators and equites rather than the populus . 89 The...
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Lucretius and Virgil's Pastoral Dream
Journal article by Annette Lucia Giesecke; Utopian Studies, Vol. 10, 1999
Subjects: Latin literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Lucretius--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Rome (Ancient)--History, Utopias in literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Virgil--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...who profited most from Romes burgeoning capitalism were the equites, the growing and increasingly wealthy equestrian class who...and nobiles, who together comprised the Senate, the greedy equites, and the vast multitude of Romes oppressed citizenry. A further...
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Voyages Estudiantins Au [XVI.Sup.E] Siecle: Les Itineraria De Jean Second
Journal article by Philip Ford; The Romanic Review, Vol. 94, 2003
Subjects: French literature--Research, Travel in literature--Research, Travel literature--Research
...egressi sumus post prandium hora secunda, alii quidem equites, ego vero pedes ; tum ut me exercerem, tum ut comiti nostro...Pauculis itaque horis ad Vallemcygnum veni paulo antequam equites adpellerent. (p. 41-42...
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The Fox in World Literature: Reflections on a "Fictional Animal"
Journal article; Asian Folklore Studies, Vol. 65, 2006
Subjects: Animal mythology--Usage, Animal tales--Criticism and interpretation, Animals--Mythology, Animals--Usage, Folk literature--Criticism and interpretation, Folk literature--International aspects, Folklore--Criticism and interpretation, Folklore--International aspects, Foxes--Portrayals
...the god of wine, and the fox as a creature that harms viniculture are conceivable (DIEZ and BAUER 1973, 172). Aristophanes (Equites 1077) and others attribute to the animal a predilection for eating grapes, and the well known fable The Fox and the Sour Grapes...
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Enclosure and Taxonomy in John Clare
Journal article by Eric Miller; Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 40, 2000
Subjects: Clare, John--Criticism, interpretation, etc., English literature, 1837-1901 (Victorian age)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Peasantry--Literature
...ordines, "according to class and rank," as definitively as any of the species enrolled in his work.28 (The butterflies are Equites, "knights," like Linnaeus.) Clare connects Linnaeus not only with "cutting" but with "killing," the collection of specimens...
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Class, Political Conservatism and Jesus
Magazine article by Obery M. Hendricks Jr.; Cross Currents, Vol. 55, Fall 2005
Subjects: Bush, George W.--Religious aspects, Christianity--Political aspects, Conservatism--Political aspects, United States--Political aspects, United States--Religious aspects
...emperor, were expected to possess wealth and property worth 250,000 times a laborers daily wage. Acceptance as a member of the equites class, which in power and privilege was next in the imperial hierarchy, required a net worth of 100,000 to 125,000 times the...


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TOMB OF THE BODYGUARD; Lasting Memorial: The Tombstone of Crescens and, Left, How He May Have Looked in Life as One of the Governor's Elite Bodyguard North of the Border
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), November 3, 2007
...Sebosiana, from the detachment of theGovernors bodyguard - equites singulares - served 15 years. Everyone wouldremember his name...where Quintus Lollius Urbicuswent, the 500 horsemen of the equites singulares followed. Roman generals ledfrom the front and the...


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encyclopedia articles on: Equites  - 7 results

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Equites
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
EQUITES ek witez Lat.,=horsemen, the original cavalry of the...legend, by Romulus from the three ancient Roman tribes; the equites were selected from the senatorial class on the basis of...transferred judicial functions from the senate to the body of equites, who, though later deprived of these powers by Sulla, attained...
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Publican
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...contracts involving public works and tax collecting; the tax collectors made the most profit. The publicans were usually equites , or capitalists. In the Gospels which showed the general detestation, particularly in Asia Minor, Syria, and Palestine, in...
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Knight
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...the second class who in military service had to furnish his own mount and equipment. In Roman society, the knights (Latin equites ) ranked below the senatorial class and above ordinary citizens. A knight forfeited his status if the assessed value of his...
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Drusus
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...policy was to win the people and the Italian allies over to the senate, so that the senate might recover from the knights (equites) the control of the courts. By a general increase in the franchise he won the support of the people and of the Italians, but...
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Gracchi
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...chief aim of these reforms was to unite the plebs and the equites , thus undermining the authority of the senate. The Lex Frumentaria...good of the poor. In the Lex Judiciaria, Caius won over the equites by granting them control over the judgeships that had heretofore...
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