equitibus

equitibus is a Latin form of eques, meaning “horseman, rider; (pl.) cavalry; a knight, member of the equestrian order”. It is the ablative plural masculine noun.

Found 386 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.15.2: Quo proelio sublati Helvetii, quod quingentis equitibus tantam multitudinem equitum propulerant, audacius subsistere non numquam et novissimo agmine proelio nostros …

Pseudo-Caesar, De Bello Africo 31: … , omnis intra munitiones minutatim modesteque sine tumultu aut terrore se recipere atque in opere consistere. Equitibus autem qui in statione fuerant praecipit ut usque eo locum obtinerent in quo paulo ante constitisset donec ab …

All forms of eques (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.