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CELETES

Volume 4 · 50 words · 1797 Edition

or Celetæ, (from κελεύω, a race-horse,) in antiquity, denote single or saddle-horses; by way of contradiction from those yoked or harnessed together, called bigarii, quadrigarii, &c. The same de-

nomination is also given to the cavaliers or riders on horsecback; and hence some deduce celeres, the name of Romulus's guard.