EQUITES, THE

EQUITES, THE
   a celebrated equestrian order in ancient Rome, supposed to have been instituted by Romulus; at first purely military, it was at length invested with the judicial functions of the Senate, and the power of farming out the public revenues; gradually lost these privileges and became defunct.

The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. . 1907.

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