Quirites
Americanplural noun
plural noun
Etymology
Origin of Quirites
< Latin Quirītēs, plural of Quirīs, associated, perhaps by folk etymology, with Cures, a Sabine town
Example Sentences
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Numa belonged to a celebrated Sabine city, Cures, from which the united Romans and Sabines called themselves Quirites.
From Plutarch's Lives, Volume I by Aubrey Stewart
Quirites, kwi-rī′tez, n.pl. the citizens of ancient Rome in their civil capacity.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
On the other were the Quirites and the site of the Sabine arx, that Capitolium so-called, says Montfaucon, "because it was the head of the world, from which the consuls and senators governed the universe."
From Rome by Hope Malleson
Now, by your children's cradles, now by your fathers' graves, Be men to-day, Quirites, or be forever slaves!
From Lays of Ancient Rome by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
The soldiers of Alexander are called Quirites, as if they were Romans.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 98, December, 1865 by Various
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