EQUITES, amongst the Romans, were persons of the second degree of nobility, immediately succeeding the senators in point of rank. The equites or knights were required to be possessed of 400 sesteritia before they could be admitted into that order; and when the knights were so reduced as to fall short of the prescribed
Equity, scribbed revenue, they were expunged out of the equestrian list. The equestrian revenue just mentioned amounted to about 10,000 crowns.
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