A dictionary of Greek and Roman . t the cavalry, instead of the infantry, asthey would otherwise have been obliged to havedone. Thus arose the two distinct classes ofequites, which have been already mentioned. The inspection of the equites who receivedhorses from the state, belonged to the censors, whohad the power of depriving an eques of his horse,and reducing him to the condition of an aerarian(Liv. xxiv. 43), and also of giving the vacanthorse to the most distinguished of the equiteswho had previously served at their own these purposes they made during their censo
A dictionary of Greek and Roman . t the cavalry, instead of the infantry, asthey would otherwise have been obliged to havedone. Thus arose the two distinct classes ofequites, which have been already mentioned. The inspection of the equites who receivedhorses from the state, belonged to the censors, whohad the power of depriving an eques of his horse,and reducing him to the condition of an aerarian(Liv. xxiv. 43), and also of giving the vacanthorse to the most distinguished of the equiteswho had previously served at their own these purposes they made during their censor-ship a public inspection, in the forum, of all theknights who possessed public horses (equitation re-cognoscunt, Liv. xxxix. 44 ; equitum centurias re-cognoscwil, Valer. Max. ii. 9. § 6). The tribeswere taken in order, and each knight was sum-moned by name. Every one, as his name wascalled, walked past the censors, leading his ceremony is represented on the reverse ofmany Roman coins struck by the censors. A spe-cimen is If the censors had no fault to find either withthe character of the knight or the equipments ofhis horse, they ordered him to pass on (traducequum, Valer. 1. § 10) ; but if on the con-trary they considered him unworthy of his rank,they struck him out of the list of knights, and de-prived him of his horse (Liv. xxxix. 44) or orderedhim to sell it (Liv. xxix. 37 ; Valer. Max. ii. 9.§ 6), with the intention no doubt that the personthus degraded should refund to the state themoney which had been advanced to him for itspurchase. (Niebuhr, Hist, of Rome, vol. i. p. 433.)At the same review, those equites who had servedthe regular time, and wished to be discharged, wereaccustomed to give an account to the censors of thecampaigns in which they had served, and werethen dismissed with honour or disgrace, as theymight have deserved. (Plut. Pomp. 22.) This review of the equites by the censors mustnot be confounded with the Equitum Transvect
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