Quirites

[ kwi-rahy-teez, -ree- ]

plural noun

1. the citizens of ancient Rome considered in their civil capacity.

Quirites

/ kwɪˈraɪtiːz /

plural noun

1. the citizens of ancient Rome

Word History and Origins

Origin of Quirites¹

< Latin Quirītēs, plural of Quirīs, associated, perhaps by folk etymology, with Cures, a Sabine town

Word History and Origins

Origin of Quirites¹

from Latin: inhabitants of Cures, later applied generally to Roman citizens

Example Sentences

Called in the MSS. the speech “De imperio Gnæi Pompeii” “apud Quirites” it is better known as the oration pro lege Maniliâ, and because there is no compendious school edition of this speech, apart from others of the same orator in the hands of English school-boys, Professor Wilkins, of Owens College, has judiciously undertaken to prepare an edition of it, with the cognizance, sanction, and assistance of Karl Halm, of Munich, and his smaller edition for English students.

From Project Gutenberg

According to the legend, it was from Cures that Titus Tatius led to the Quirinal the Sabine settlers, from whom, after their union with the settlers on the Palatine, the whole Roman people took the name Quirites.

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Quirites, kwi-rī′tez, n.pl. the citizens of ancient Rome in their civil capacity.

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She had encountered Muzio many times in the studio of the sculptor Manlio, and, poor and apparently low as he was, Julia had found under the ragged garb of a mendicant her ideal of the proud race of the Quirites.

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He is certainly a Roman, and if a Roman, he belongs to the race of the Quirites! my ideal people—the objects of my worship!

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