. The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary and Greek lexicon; forming a glossary of all the words representing visible objects connected with the arts, manufactures, and every-day life of the Greeks and Romans, with representations of nearly two thousand objects from the antique. hardship of serving on foot. (Liv. 264 EQUES. v. 7. Id. xxxiii. 26. Cses., &c.)These troops received pay from thestate, and eventually constituted theRoman cavalry, after the regularequestrians had ceased to do militaryduty. Soldiers of this class are fre-quently represented on the columnsand triumphal arches
. The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary and Greek lexicon; forming a glossary of all the words representing visible objects connected with the arts, manufactures, and every-day life of the Greeks and Romans, with representations of nearly two thousand objects from the antique. hardship of serving on foot. (Liv. 264 EQUES. v. 7. Id. xxxiii. 26. Cses., &c.)These troops received pay from thestate, and eventually constituted theRoman cavalry, after the regularequestrians had ceased to do militaryduty. Soldiers of this class are fre-quently represented on the columnsand triumphal arches of the Imperialperiod, similar to the figure annexed,from the Column of Antoninus, in ahelmet, and with a cuirass of scalearmour, a lance, small round shield,no stirrups, and pad saddle coveredwith housings. 4. Eques legionarius. A legionarytrooper; evidently, as the epithet im-plies, distinct from the knights, andfrom ordinary cavalry, which wasusually stationed on the wings, andvery frequently furnished by the name leads naturally to the con-clusion that these men formed a bodyof heavy-armed cavalry, like the in-fantry of the legion ; and the annexedfigure from the Column of Antoninus. so far confirms the conjecture, as itshows that in that age at least therewas a class of mounted Roman troopswho wore cuirasses of exactly the samedescription as the legionary of thesame period, as will be seen by com-paring the illustrations s. Legiona-rius and Lorica squamata, withthe present figure, the lower portionof which is concealed in the originalby the groups before it. Liv. Veg. Mil ii. 2. 5. Eques prcetorianus. See Pr^> TORIANI. 6. Eques Sagittarius. A mountedarcher; a class of troops mostly com-posed of foreign auxiliaries ; but alsoequipped by the Macedonians (Quint. Curt. v. 4.), and the Romans ( ii. 16.), who sometimes armed
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