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CELETES

Volume 5 · 49 words · 1823 Edition

or CELETÆ (from ἵππος, a race-horse) in antiquity, denote single or saddle-horses, by way of contradistinction 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 celeres, the name of Romulus's guard.