Aequi

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Aequi: ōrum, m.
I A warlike people of ancient Italy, in the neighborhood of the Latins and Volsci, on both sides of the Anio, whose cities were Alba, Tibur, Praeneste, Carseoli, etc. They were almost entirely destroyed by the dictator Cincinnatus, Cic. Rep. 2, 20; Liv. 1, 9; 4, 30 al.; cf. Nieb. Röm. Gesch. 1, 81.—Hence,
Aequĭ-cus, a, um, adj., Æquian: bellum, with the Æqui, Liv. 3, 4, 3; 10, 1, 7.—
   B Ae-quīcŭlus, a, um, adj., Æquian: gens, Verg. A. 7, 747 rura, Sil. 8, 371.—Hence, subst.: Aequīcŭlus, i, m., one of the Æqui: asper, Ov. F. 3, 93; so Suet. Vit. 1. —
   C Aequīcūlāni = Aequiculi, Plin. 3, 12, 17, § 107.