Equio, equis, equire. Plin. When a mare destreth to bee couered of the horse.
Equito, tas, pen. cor. rate Hor. To ride.In orbem equitare.Ouid.To ride rounde.In equuleis equitare.Cic.To ride on coltes. Equitare. Passiuum. Plin. To be ride vppon.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
ĕquĭo, īre, v. n. [id.], of mares, to be in heat, Plin. 10, 63, 83, 181; perh. also Col. 6, 38, 1.
ĕquĭto, āvi, ātum, 1, v. n. and a. [eques], to ride.I.Neutr.A. In gen. (class.): cum in illo nostro exercitu equitaret, Cic. Deiot. 10; Sall. J. 6, 1; Suet. Caes. 57; Hor. C. 2, 9, 24 al.: in equo, Dig. 9, 2, 57; cf.: in equuleis, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 20; v. Equuleus, II. A.; and: in arundine longa, Hor. S. 2, 3, 248.—B. In partic. (acc. to eques, II. A.): EQVITARE antiqui dicebant equum publicum merere, Paul. ex Fest. 81, 15 Müll.—C.Transf.1.To skirmish, manœuvre: illa (certatio) qua tu contra Alfenum equitabas, Cic. Quint. 22, 73.—2. Of the horse, to go, Lucil. ap. Gell. 18, 5, 10, and ap. Non. 107, 1.—3. Of the wind, like i(ppeu/ein, to blow violently: Eurus per undas, Hor. C. 4, 4, 44: per caelum, Poët. ap. Censor. Fr. 14, 9.—4. In mal. part., Juv. 6, 311.—II.Act., to ride through (post-Aug.).—In pass.: flumen equitatur, Flor. 3, 4, 5: equitataque Culmina Taÿgeti, Claud. Bell. Get. 192: fluxis equitata Bactra Parthis, Sid. Carm. 23, 249.