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CELETES

Volume 5 · 49 words · 1815 Edition

or CELETA (from κέλτης, 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 denomination is also given to the cavaliers or riders on horseback; and hence some deduce celere, the name of Romulus's guard.