The gens Equitia was an obscure plebeian family at ancient Rome, known from only a few individuals. No member of this gens obtained the consulship prior to the third century, but the emperor Probus may have been descended from the Tarquitii.

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References

  1. ^ Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, William Smith, Editor.
  2. ^ Appianus, Bellum Civile i. 32, 33.
  3. ^ Valerius Maximus, Factorum ac Dictorum Memorabilium libri IX iii. 2. § 18.
  4. ^ Marcus Tullius Cicero, Pro Sestio 47, Pro Gaio Rabirio Postumo 7.
  5. ^ CIL I, 1945
  6. ^ D. R. Shackleton Bailey, Two Studies in Roman Nomenclature (1976), pp. 85, 92, 115–116

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