Equester
and in Greek Ἵππιος, occurs as a surname of several divinities, such as Poseidon (Neptune), who had created the horse, and in whose honour horse-races were held (Serv. ad Virg. Georg. 1.12; Liv. 1.9; Paus. 5.15.4), of Aphrodite (Serv. ad Aen. 1.724), Hera (Paus. 5.15.4), Athena (Paus. 1.30.4, 31.3, 5.15.4, 8.47.1), and Ares. (Paus. 5.15.4.) The Roman goddess Fortuna bore the same surname, and the consul Flaccus vowed a temple to her in B. C. 180, during a battle against the Celtiberians. (Liv. 40.40, 42.3.) Tacitus (Tac. Ann. 3.71) mentions a temple of Fortuna Equestris at Antium.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.