Beginning in January, the emerald lawns of the Palm Beach Polo Equestrian Club are transformed into the Cosequin Winter Equestrian Festival, a vast, luxurious tent camp accommodating a 10-week occupation by what Gore Vidal once characterized as America's stealth rulers, and Lewis Lapham has more delicately termed "the equestrian class".
Gaius also put eminent nonsenators (probably defined by wealth, but perhaps limited to the equites, or equestrian class) in charge of the quaestio repetundarum, whose senatorial members had shown too much leniency to their colleagues, and he imposed severe penalties on senators convicted by that court.
His father was initially a member of the equestrian class, but was later elevated to the rank of senator.
The Seii were Romans of the equestrian class (or knights), the lower of the two upper social classes of the Roman Republic and the early Roman Empire.
By this time he had been raised to the rank of praetor, a position which was not normally granted to Romans of the equestrian class.
Instead of a legate or proconsul, Augustus installed a prefect from the equestrian class to administer Egypt and maintain its lucrative seaports; this position became the highest political achievement for any equestrian besides becoming Prefect of the Praetorian Guard.
Like Egypt, which had been conquered after the defeat of Antony in 30 BC, Syria was governed not by a proconsul or legate of Augustus, but a high prefect of the equestrian class.
Phillips comes from an equestrian family.
While Zach prepared to compete in an equestrian jumping class, I enjoyed myself wandering around the grassy vendors' court, lined with shops, pretty hats, fancy belts, shirts and riding gear.
The mayor's daughter's standing as a world class equestrian has to make signing this legislation especially satisfying.
