or Ecury, a grand stable or lodge for horses, furnished with all suitable conveniences, as stalls, manger, rack, &c. The word is formed from the French écurie, which signifies the same thing. Some, again, derive écurie from the Latin securia, which not only derives a place for beasts to be stalled in, but also a grange or barn. But a more probable derivation is from equile, a stable for horses, from equus, horse. Some think that the word stable properly relates only to bullocks, cows, sheep, hogs, &c. and ecuary to horses, mules, &c.

A simple ecuary is that provided for one row of horses; a double ecuary that provided for two, with a passage in the middle; or two passages, the horses being placed head to head.

Under the term ecuary are sometimes also comprehended the lodgings and apartments of the ecuaries, grooms, pages, and others.

Ecuary (écuyer) is also an officer who has the care and management of the horses of a king or prince.

Eques Auratus is used to signify a knight-bachelor, called auratus, because anciently none but knights might gild or beautify their armour or other habiliments of war with gold. In law this term is not used; but instead of it miles, and sometimes chevalier.

Equestria, among the Romans, a place in the theatre occupied by the equites or knights.

Equestrian (ecuestris), a term chiefly used in the Equestrian phrase *equestrian statue*, which signifies a statue representing a person mounted on horseback. The word is formed from the Latin *eques*, knight or horseman, from *equus*, horse.

**EQUESTRIAN Games**, among the Romans, horse-races, of which there were five kinds; the *prodromus* or plain horse-race, the chariot-race, the decursory-race about funeral piles, the *ludi sevirales*, and the *ludi neptunales*.