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Equites, which is spoken of at the end of this chapter, is explained by c.
Plutarch's Lives Volume III. 46-120? Plutarch 1839
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Parietes vero omnes interius sunt laminati laminis aureis, in quibus sculpti sunt Equites de auro habentes circa caput circulum aureum plenum lapidibus pretiosis: Tectum est de auro puro.
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Reges, et alij Equites potentes, Duces, et Marchiones, omnes induti holosericis, quibus inserti cum certa disseminatione sunt vbique preciosi lapides, miræ virtutis, et aurifigia speciosa, vt si quis in his partibus vnum de talibus haberet mutatorijs, dici non posset pauper imò prædiues.
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Reges, et alij Equites potentes, Duces, et Marchiones, omnes induti holosericis, quibus inserti cum certa disseminatione sunt vbique preciosi lapides, mir� virtutis, et aurifigia speciosa, vt si quis in his partibus vnum de talibus haberet mutatorijs, dici non posset pauper im� pr鎑iues.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Equites or Knights, called a century, which shows that these divisions, being unnecessary in a town, were at first merely military.
The Social Contract 2002
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Casca had first seen them used in the forests of Germany, when the Teutonic tribesmen had used them to pull the young Equites from their horses and slit their throats before they could rise to fight.
The Eternal Mercenary Sadler, Barry 1980
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The army was called a Legion, and was composed of a contribution of a thousand foot-soldiers and a hundred cavalry (_Equites_, Knights) from each tribe.
The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic Arthur Gilman
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Though the new arrangement of Servius Tullius gave the plebeians power, it did not give them so much as might be supposed, because it was contrived that the richest class should have the greatest number of votes, and they with the Equites had so many that they were able to carry any measure upon which they agreed.
The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic Arthur Gilman
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Patricians, but afterwards, also from the Plebeians -- chiefly, however, from the Equites.
Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed) Charles K. Dillaway
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Horsemen, _Equites_, Knights, or Cavalry, consisting of six patrician centuries of Equites established by Romulus, and twelve new ones formed from the principal plebeian families.
The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic Arthur Gilman
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