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EQUITES (" horsemen " or " knights," from equus, " horse "), in Roman history, originally a division of the army, but subsequently a distinct political order, which under the empire resumed its military character. According to the traditional account, Romulus ...

EQUITY (Lat. aequitas), a term which in its most general sense means equality or justice; in its most technical sense it means a system of law or a body of connected legal principles, which have superseded or supplemented the common law on the ground of their

... that occur in Rome itself most were exhumed on the site of the barracks of the equites singulares, a foreign imperial bodyguard mainly recruited from the Batavians. Her name does not appear in Tertullian's list of the indigetes di, and Juvenal contrasts her w ...

... elestial equator. This is the usual meaning of the term in astronomy. There are EQUITES two such points, opposite each other, at one of which the sun crosses the equator toward the north and at the other toward the south. They are called vernal and autumnal re ...