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CELETES

Volume 6 · 52 words · 1842 Edition

or CELETÆ (from ἵππος, a race-horse), in Antiquity, denote single or saddle-horses, by way of contradistinction from those which were yoked or harnessed together, and 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.