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 city being thus doubled, that some compliment might be paid to the Sabines, they were called Quirites, from Cures.
From The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livius, Titus
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 Trollope, Anthony
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
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 Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron
The king answered, "That which may be done without detriment to me and to the Roman people, the Quirites, I do."
From The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livius, Titus
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