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1583 Sir T. Smith's De Republica Anglorum i. xviii. 22 The number of Equites was vncertaine, and so it is of knightes, at the pleasure of the prince.

1604 C. Edmondes Observ. Cæsars Comm. II. vi. 2 According to the proportion of their stipendary time, as the Equites were admitted Tribunes at fiue yeares, so were the legionarie footmen at ten.

1797 Encycl. Brit. VI. 705/1 The equites were liable to be punished by the censors, and to suffer degradation.

1837 Penny Cycl. IX. 492/2 We find at the time of the siege of Veii a number of equites serving on horseback at their own expense.

1879 J. A. Froude Cæsar x. 110 The courts of the Equites..were to be composed two-thirds of knights and one-third only of senators.

1944 E. T. Salmon Hist. Roman World 56 By this stage the young eques was usually about thirty years old and was ready for administrative appointments in the form of various procuratorships.

1990 Omnibus Mar. 28/1 It will have been here that members of the equites..watched gladiatorial combats..on Saturday afternoons.