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
During his long absence from Rome his interests were guarded by the tribune Curio, and Marcus Antonius, the future triumvir.
From Ancient States and Empires by John Lord
The usual divorce severed these bonds, and Marcella was given to Antonius, the son of the triumvir.
From Roman Women by Alfred Brittain
A triumvir is one of three men united in office; specifically in ancient Rome.
From Orthography As Outlined in the State Course of Study for Illinois by Elmer W. Cavins
Eros, the manumitted slave of Antony the triumvir.
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
In Cilicia he ordered Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, to apologize for her insolent behaviour to the triumviri.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli by Various
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
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
Caesar occupied it, however, as a strong position after crossing the Rubicon; and it received a Roman colony, perhaps under the triumvirs, and became a place of some importance.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" by Various
The triumvirs would not agree to the recall of those who had been exiled.
From History of the Rise of the Huguenots Volume 2 by Henry Martyn Baird
Similarly the triumvirs after Philippi condoned her enthusiasm for the cause of Brutus.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" by Various
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