Equites is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.
You can make 88 anagrams from letters in equites (eeiqstu).
Latin, plural of eques horseman, derivative of equus horse
But the equites were not a safe body to intrust with this power.
This order seemeth to answer in part to that equites aurati.
From the equites, too, were taken the tax-gatherers of the provinces.
The senate offended the equites by proposing it, and yet did not carry the law.
Juvenal speaks also of "equites Cappadoces" in the same strain, Sat.
The control of the courts was transferred from the equites to the Senate.
Sulla restored the judicial functions to the Senate (from the equites).
Gracchus belonged to the class of equites, and as such he had a Public horse.
Galbas guard, of the equites, had gold rings as a distinguishing badge.
The equites at Rome had an interest in acquitting a man who favoured their order.
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