The losses were especially serious for the equestrian order, which also provided the army's senior officers.
His father was a well-to-do member of the equestrian order and possessed good connections in Rome.
As a consequence, patricians rapidly became only a small minority of the equestrian order.
The equestrian order was traditionally limited to those who were entitled to a public horse.
Any number of them are from the nobility-although usually from the equestrian order.
At Rome, the family was considered part of the equestrian order.
Coponius also, a man of the equestrian order, was sent together with him, to have the supreme power over the Jews.
They belonged to the equestrian order and had a full Roman citizenship.
Education seems to have been standard for daughters of the senatorial and equestrian orders during the Empire.
He came from a distinguished family and belonged to the equestrian order.