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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The citizens were no longer the descendants of Quirites, remnant of the Pharaohs or the Macedonian kings, but satyrs, fauns, bacchantes, nymphs, mimes and harlequins.
From Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians by Elizabeth Miller
Thus Quirinus would be an oak-god, and Quirites oak-spearmen.
From The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus by W. Warde Fowler
But they, these Quirites, these Roman citizens, these masters of the world, by whom everything was supposed to be governed, could take care 235of no one; certainly not of themselves, as certainly not of another.
From The Life of Cicero Volume One by Anthony Trollope
This is mine, according to the law of the Quirites.
From Sónnica by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
Some say that the name Quirinus, which Romulus received, means Mars; others that it was because his people were called Quirites.
From Plutarch's Lives, Volume I by Aubrey Stewart
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