Complex sentence: Cornell suggests that the voting order of the equites (after infantry of the first class) reflects their subordination to the relatively low-status infantry in the centuriate system: equites "consisted mainly, if not exclusively, of patricians".
Split into simpler sentences: Cornell suggests that the voting order of the equites (after infantry of the first class) reflects their subordination to the relatively low-status infantry in the centuriate system. Equites "consisted mainly, if not exclusively, of patricians".