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Definition of Triumviri
1. triumvir [n] - See also: triumvir
Lexicographical Neighbors of Triumviri
Literary usage of Triumviri
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lectures on the History of Rome: From the Earliest Times to the Fall of the by Barthold Georg Niebuhr, Leonhard Schmitz (1852)
"To this period belongs the appointment of the triumviri capitales. The form
triumviri is properly a solecism, and a proof that the oblique cases already ..."
2. A School Dictionary of Greek & Roman Antiquities by William Smith (1851)
"triumviri CAPITALES were regular magistrates, first appointed about B. c. 292.
They were elected by the people, the comitia being held by the praetor. ..."
3. Bibliotheca Classica, Or A Dictionary of All the Principal Names and Terms by John Lemprière, John David Ogilby (1839)
"The triumviri senatus legendi were appointed to name those that were most worthy
to be made senators from among the plebeians. They were first chosen in the ..."
4. The Journal of Philology by William George Clark, William Aldis Wright, Ingram Bywater, John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor, Henry Jackson (1876)
"... and triumviri. THERE appear to be two forms in which these words are •written :
duoviri ... and triumviri in literature. ..."
5. The Greatness and Decline of Rome by Guglielmo Ferrero (1909)
"CHAPTER X 'triumviri ... coup d'ttat of Octavianus—Octavianus as consul ; the
amnesty is annulled—The reconciliation of Antony and Octavianus—triumviri ..."
6. Livy, Books XXI. and XXII by Livy (1893)
"sed ipsi triumviri Romani, qui ad agrum venerant ad- ... triumviri: a Roman colony
was an armed settlement of Roman citizens, in or near hostile territory, ..."
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