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Triumvir

noun

(pl. L. triumviri, E. triumvirs)

One of a group of three sharing public administration or civil authority especially in ancient Rome.

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... unseen. 13. ergastulorum from the slaves' work-houses. 17. mirmillonem. The Mirmillones were a class of gladiators usually matched with the Thraces or the retiarii (net-fighters). 18. Marcus Crassus, the Triumvir of 60 B.C. asseruit maintained. Cf. our assert. 21. in Siciliam, where the slaves had risen in 133 and 104 B.C., and only waited an impulse to break out a third time. 25. sine missione without quarter. ...

— Helps to Latin Translation at Sight • Edmund Luce

... acted as a notary, he threw down his tablet, and took an oath, that he would not, for the future, follow that business. But Licinius Macer contends, that he had dropped the employment of notary a considerable time before, having already been a tribune, and twice a triumvir, once for regulating the nightly watch, and another time for conducting a colony. However, of this there is no dispute, that against the nobles, who threw contempt on the meanness of his condition, he contended with much firmness. He made public the rules ...

— The History of Rome; Books Nine to Twenty-Six • Titus Livius

Words linked to "Triumvir" : executive, administrator