In addition to these, the equites consisted of eighteen centuries, with eighteen votes.
But Dionysius places theequites in the first class, and remarks that this class was first called.
The whole number of centuries in the six classes with the equites added, made a total of one hundred and ninety-three, according to Dionysius.
In taking a vote upon any public question, the equites were called first, and then the first class.
The equites remained at home, or only went out as members of the general's staff, their places being taken by the equites equo privato, the cavalry of the allies and the most skilled horsemen of the subject populations.
Although this measure was bound to set senators and equites at variance, it in no way improved the lot of those chiefly concerned.
The sons of senators were eligible by right of birth, and appear to have been known as equites illustres.
Although the equites were selected from the wealthiest citizens, service in the cavalry was so expensive that the state gave financial assistance.
These equites equo privato had no vote in the centuries, received pay in place of the aes equestre, and did not form a distinct corps.
In the time of Severus, these equites were divided into two corps, each of which had its separate quarters, and was commanded by a tribune under the orders of the prefect of the praetorian guard.
Under these officers the equites formed a kind of corporation, which, although not officially recognized, had the right of passing resolutions, chiefly such as embodied acts of homage to the imperial house.
Bouche-Leclercq's Manuel des antiquites romaines, quoted in Daremberg and Saglio; and on the equites singulares, T.
Thus, Dionysius of Halicarnassus mentions 5000 equites as taking part in a review at which he himself was present.
The Equites (cavalry) wore helmets and cuirasses, like the infantry, having a broadsword at the right side, and in the hand a long pole.
Collision between the Senate and Equites in the Administration of the Provinces; IV.
At the temple of Tellus, where the Esquiline begins to slope towards the great Forum, Marius attempted once more to make a stand; he adjured the senate and equites and all the citizens to throw themselves across the path of the legions.
Italians Friendly to Rome The Etruscans and Umbrians on the other hand held by Rome, as they had already taken part with the equites against Drusus.
Collision between the Senate and Equitesin the Administration of the Provinces Chapter VII 1.
Gaius Gracchus or at any rate the Gracchan period had conceded to the equites a special place at the popular festivals, such as the senators had for long possessed;(10) Sulla abolished it and relegated the equites to the plebeian benches.
Five or six hundred baronets in dark green costume,--the appropriate dress of equites aurati; each not only with his badge, but with his collar of S.
I can do no more; I do not pretend to make baronets, still less can I confer on those already made the right to wear stars and coronets, the dark green dress of Equites aurati, or white hats with white plumes of feathers.
They judged the opportunity favorable for depriving the Equites of the judicial power which they had enjoyed, with only a temporary cessation, since the time of C.
In their eagerness to obtain the farming of the public taxes in Asia, the Equites had agreed to pay too large a sum, and accordingly petitioned the Senate for more favorable terms.
He began at once to restore discipline in the army, and raised to the rank of Senators and Equites illustrious men from the provinces, as well as from Italy and Rome, thus giving to the provincials a certain share in the government.
A large number of the Senate and the Equites appeared also in mourning, and the better portion of the citizens seemed resolved to espouse his cause.
At the head of the Classes were the Equites or cavalry.
The Roman Equites attached to the army were very few in number, and were chiefly employed as aids-de-camp and on confidential missions.
The Equites had abused their power, as the Senate had done before them.
The Equites and First Class alone amounted to 100 Centuries, or more than half of the total number; so that, if they agreed to vote the same way, they possessed at once an absolute majority.
To the three centuries ofequites established by Romulus he wished to add three new centuries, and to call them after himself and two of his friends.
It was properly the robe of kings, consuls, and augurs, but was worn by the equites on solemn processions.
Equites Singulares quoted above suggests an average of three to a turma.
The garrison consists of a cuneus equitum Dalmatarum, a cuneus equitum Constantianorum, and some equites sagittarii.
This is addressed to the ‘equites cohortis VI Commagenorum’.
Milites;) or out of the warres for some great seruice doone, or for the singular vertues which doo appeare in them, and then are they named Equites aurati, as common custome intendeth.
For as Equites Romani were chosen Ex censu, that is, according to their substance and riches; so be knights in England most commonlie according to their yearelie reuenues or aboundance of riches, wherewith to mainteine their estates.
This order seemeth to answer in part to [Sidenote: Equites aurati.
They were often senators or equites of high rank, and a single curator sometimes had the supervision of several municipalities.
These equites became a very important class as Rome traded and grew rich; for a time they were the real moving class in the community.
The equites became, therefore, the great business men, negotiatores, and as publicani they farmed the taxes.
The equites thronged the hill in large numbers, to secure the safety of the Consul, and to protest against the designs of the conspirators.
The immediate danger being removed, the equites fell back into their habitual attitude of opposition to the senate.
They were assembled in the temple of Iuppiter Stator on the Palatine, which was protected by the Equites in arms.
The Roman equites discharged civil functions regarding the administration of justice and the farming of the public revenue; but the chivalry of the middle ages had no such duties to perform.
Equites had held the courts for nearly fifty years, i.
The Equites have one set of four which they will enter for the next race.
Six hundred equites were held as hostages for the due observance of the treaty, and these knights were, in fact, so many pawns, held in pledge for the honour of the Romans.
The day I write this Drusus has been acquitted on a charge of collusion by the tribuni ærarii, in the grand total by four votes, for the majority of senators and equites were for condemnation.
The senate offended the equites by proposing it, and yet did not carry the law.
Senators under a cloud, equites out at elbows, tribunes who were not so much made of money as "collectors" of it, according to their official title.
What could be a greater piece of impudence than the equites renouncing the obligations of their contract?
The equites declared war on the senate, not on me, for I voted against it.
He had seen his brother fall because the equites and the senators, the great commoners and the nobles, were combined against him.
The few equites who, since Sylla's time, had made their way into the Senate had yielded to patrician ascendency.
It has been lost by the folly of those who estranged from the Senate the compact order of the equites and a very distinguished man [Caesar].
Appian, on the other hand, says that the courts of the equites had been more corrupt than the senatorial courts.
The courts of the equites were remembered in contrast, and a law was passed that for the future the courts were to be composed two thirds of knights and one third only of senators.
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