Roman Knights
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in the texts
Institutes of Roman Law
The equestrian order forming a privileged voting bloc in the Comitia Centuriata.
The weight of aristocratic influence may be still more fully realized if we remember that the corps of Roman Knights (centuriae equitum equo publico) formed eighteen centuries in this assembly, and that the mass of citizens whose property fell below the minimum census were grouped in a single century.
or, if we add the other centuries of knights (18), of corporate bodies such as the Fabri (4), and of Proletarii (1), we find that the first class and the knights commanded but eighty-eight votes out of a total of 373.
De Pallio
Roman equestrian order, cited amid discussions of social/dress confusion and contrasted with the cloak's philosophical clientele.
But indeed, this long while now, the censorious frown of intentness having been scattered, how much for marking down does the indiscriminate mixing offer — freedmen among the knights, the branded among the liberal, the surrendered among the freeborn, rustics among the city-folk, buffoons among the forensic, civilians among the military:
Plainly, after the Roman knights.