Definitions for Quirites

Quirites Qui·ri·tes

Spelling: [kwi-rahy-teez, -ree-]
IPA: /kwɪˈraɪ tiz, -ˈri-/

Quirites is a 8 letter English word.

You can make 174 anagrams from letters in Quirites (eiiqrstu).

Definitions for Quirites

plural noun

  1. the citizens of ancient Rome considered in their civil capacity.

Origin of Quirites

Latin Quirītēs, plural of Quirīs, associated, perhaps by folk etymology, with Cures, a Sabine town

Examples for Quirites

Even in later years, the Roman citizens were addressed in the Forum as Quirites.

And I never cared for the thermæ; warm baths are only fit for Quirites, not for soldiers.

Servi aera parati injusta imperia dominorum non perferunt; vos, Quirites, imperio nati, aequo animo servitutem toleratis?

Caesar's son will not be exhibited to the Quirites in the triumphal procession.

Quirites, verum id, quod multo praeclarius est, meamet facta mihi dicere licet.

Quirites, the name the citizens of Rome assumed in their civic capacity.

Quae ante vestra beneficia gratuito faciebam, ea uti accepta mercede deseram, non est consilium, Quirites.

He seemed to stretch out his hands to me, to implore the assistance of the Quirites to protect him against an unjust judge.

Comparate nunc, Quirites, cum illorum superbia me hominem novum.

He is certainly a Roman, and if a Roman, he belongs to the race of the Quirites!

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