aequitas: aequalitas (equality) :aequabilitas (uniformity) :aequatio (act of equalizing; hence always with genitive of that, of which there is an equality). Equality of rights, aequabilitas juris: jus aequabile (as equally divided amongst several; hence, equality of rights in a state ἰσοτιμία): aequatio juris (the equalization of rights for the first time). Political equality, *aequa civitatis conditio (aequa cond., Cic., Verr., 2, 72, 177): to preserve political equality in a state, providere, ne aequa civitatis conditio turbetur (after Sen., N. Quaest., 3, 10, 3). To live on a footing of equality with anybody, ex pari or ex aequo vivere cum aliquo.