equester

The _ordo equester_ is much irritated with the senate on the question of the contracts for the collection of the Asiatic taxes.

The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order Marcus Tullius Cicero

_Ep_. lx Tertiam (legem tulit) qua equestrem ordinem, tunc cum senatu consentientem, corrumperet: "ut sexcenti ex equitibus in curiam sublegerentur: et quia illis temporibus trecenti tantum senatores erant, sexcenti equites trecentis senatoribus admiscerentur": id est, ut equester ordo bis tantum virium in senatu haberet.

A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate 1885

But of Atticus, the type of the best and highest section of the ordo equester, and of the amount and the sources of his wealth, we happen to know a good deal from the little biography of him written by his contemporary and friend Cornelius Nepos, taken together with Cicero's numerous letters to him.

Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero W. Warde Fowler 1884

At the top of the social order was the governing class, or _ordo senatorius_: then came the _ordo equester_, comprising all the men of business, bankers, money-lenders, and merchants (_negotiatores_) or contractors for the raising of taxes and many other purposes (_publicani_).

Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero W. Warde Fowler 1884

(the final achievement listed by Augustus) 'tertium decimum consulatum cum gerebam, senatus et equester ordo populusque Romanus uniuersus appellauit me _patrem patriae_, idque in uestibulo aedium mearum inscribendum esse et in curia et in foro Aug. sub quadrigis quae mihi ex s.c. positae sunt decreuit'.

The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

60 Cum Semproniis rogationibus equester ordo in possessione judiciorum locaretur.

A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate 1885