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,
II. A. Aequĭ-cus , a, um, adj., Aequian : bellum, with the Aequi , Liv. 3, 4, 3; 10, 1, 7.—
B Ae-quīcŭlus , a, um, adj., Aequian : gens, Verg. A. 7, 747 rura, Sil. 8, 371.—Hence, subst.: Aequīcŭlus , i, m., one of the Aequi : asper, Ov. F. 3, 93; so Suet. Vit. 1. —
C Aequīcūlāni = Aequiculi, Plin. 3, 12, 17, § 107.