triumvir
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triumvirs,
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triumviri
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Roman History. one of three officers or magistrates mutually exercising the same public function.
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one of three persons associated in any office or position of authority.
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Origin of triumvir
1570–80; < Latin: literally, one man of three, back formation from trium virōrum of three men
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A true Southerner by birth . . . a veritable triumvir among the Tarheels .
From Time Magazine Archive
After much dallying the triumvir really started for the wild East, whither it is not our business to follow him.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 02 (From the Rise of Greece to the Christian Era) by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne
Mazzini, 376; letter to Carlo Alberto, 379-382; triumvir in Rome, 391-394, 398; death, 413.
From A Short History of Italy (476-1900) by Henry Dwight Sedgwick
The emperor was neither king, dictator, nor triumvir.
From Early European History by Hutton Webster
The legend which then formed about the family of Augustus, a legend hostile at almost every point, has interpreted this marriage as a tyrannical act, virtually an abduction, by the dissolute and perverse triumvir.
From The Women of the Caesars by Guglielmo Ferrero
The triumviri capitales, who had the charge of the prison and of the punishment of the condemned.
From Conspiracy of Catiline and the Jurgurthine War by John Selby Watson
The consular triumviri, not perhaps quite independent of external influences, were originally adopted as a temporary expedient.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 04 by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne
It was one of the eighteen richest cities of Italy which the triumviri selected as a reward for their troops.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" by Various
"We have an order from the triumviri," began one officer.
From A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. by William Stearns Davis
The aediles and triumviri capitales, responsible for the order of the city, could do nothing; the Senate had to commission the praetor urbanus to rid the people of these religiones.
From The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus by W. Warde Fowler
But Rivera, like his fellow triumvirs of Mexican art, Siqueiros and Orozco, was no man to waste a big hunk of wall on a merely pastoral theme.
From Time Magazine Archive
Had he done so, Siqueiros might already have surpassed the reputations of his fellow triumvirs of Mexican art, Rivera and Orozco.
From Time Magazine Archive
At last the time came when the triumvirs were expected to appear at Fontainebleau on the morrow, to secure the prize of the king's person.
From History of the Rise of the Huguenots Volume 2 by Henry Martyn Baird
The empire was now in the hands of the triumvirs.
From Ancient States and Empires by John Lord
In the proscription agreed on by the triumvirs he was marked out as one of the chief victims.
From The Student's Companion to Latin Authors by George Middleton
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