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  • Instead of precipitating a battle, Lepidus contrived to have a meeting on a small island in a tributary of the Po, not far from the present site of Bologna, and there, toward the end of October, it was agreed that the government of the Roman world should be peaceably divided between the three captains, who were to be called Triumvirs for the settlement of the affairs of the republic.

    The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic Arthur Gilman

  • Eros recalls, as he tends our lamp, how he did the same serviceFor his Triumvirs, the three poets of love, long ago.

    Love in literature 2011

  • In reality it was a salutary reminder that Mandelson was, along with fellow Triumvirs Blair and Campbell (surely the most interesting Propaganda Chief since April 1945), at the heart of the debauching of truth and openness in government in the heyday of the Blair years.

    Unelected Peer Attacks MPs For Doing Their Job 2008

  • In reality it was a salutary reminder that Mandelson was, along with fellow Triumvirs Blair and Campbell (surely the most interesting Propaganda Chief since April 1945), at the heart of the debauching of truth and openness in government in the heyday of the Blair years.

    Archive 2008-11-30 2008

  • But somehow everyone assumed that the war they expected to erupt between the two Triumvirs was finally going to push ahead, and Antony found himself in a dilemma.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

  • The Triumvirs legislated with mere lip-service to the Assemblies.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

  • The “Philippics” of Cicero were libels, but the proscriptions of the Triumvirs were far more terrible libels.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • Hortensia won the encounter, a bloodless victory, at considerable embarrassment to the Triumvirs Antony, Octavian, and Lepidus.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

  • Still, thought Pollio, summoning Antony, Octavian, and Maecenas to a meeting at his house, I can attempt to make our Triumvirs see that something positive has to be done.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

  • Triumvirs would not be necessary, consular candidates could put up their names without triumviral approval, the Senate would reign supreme, the Assemblies meet regularly.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

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