institution
Ordo equester
the equestrian order
also: equester ordo, the knights
The equites, the second order of the Roman elite below the senate, the propertied class from which officers, financiers, and procurators were drawn.
Reading notes
- The Letters §1.14.5 equestrian order
The ordo equester, the Roman knights, the propertied order ranking below the senate.
- The Letters §3.2.4 equestrian rank
The order of knights, the rank below the senate; Arrianus kept to it by choice.
- Panegyric to Trajan §23 the equestrian order
The equites, the propertied order ranking just below the senate, from whom officers and administrators were drawn.