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  • noun Plural form of triumvir.

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Examples

  • Society refused to serve on them, while the essence of the scheme was that the triumvirs should be the most influential members of the

    The History of the Fabian Society Edward R. Pease 1906

  • If the words be genuine, we must consider these _vindices_ to have been the deputies, or lictors, of the "triumvirs" mentioned above.

    Conspiracy of Catiline and the Jurgurthine War 86 BC-34? BC Sallust 1844

  • II. vi --- Back in Sicily, Pompey parleys as good as parties with a triumvirs as good as strikes a deal which avoids conflict many to a offend of his father's aged troops companion Menas, who had tried to get immature Pompey to cut his rivals 'throats whilst he had a chance.

    Archive 2009-11-01 admin 2009

  • The immature masculine negotiates tensely with a triumvirs late in a act, after multiform scenes of tense negotiations in in in in in in in between Octavius as good as his elder domestic partner as good as opposition Antony.

    Archive 2009-11-01 admin 2009

  • The major antagonist is Octavius Caesar, one of Antony's fellow triumvirs and the future first emperor of Rome.

    Archive 2009-03-01 Jonathan Aquino 2009

  • II. vi --- Back in Sicily, Pompey parleys as good as parties with a triumvirs as good as strikes a deal which avoids conflict many to a offend of his father's aged troops companion Menas, who had tried to get immature Pompey to cut his rivals 'throats whilst he had a chance.

    Philadelphia Reflections: Shakspere Society of Philadelphia admin 2009

  • The immature masculine negotiates tensely with a triumvirs late in a act, after multiform scenes of tense negotiations in in in in in in in between Octavius as good as his elder domestic partner as good as opposition Antony.

    Philadelphia Reflections: Shakspere Society of Philadelphia admin 2009

  • The major antagonist is Octavius Caesar, one of Antony's fellow triumvirs and the future first emperor of Rome.

    Capsule Summaries of the Great Books of the Western World Jonathan Aquino 2009

  • As part of the terms of a separate deal struck by Antony and Octavian with the Sicily-based Sextus Pompeius, those who had supported this outlaw against the triumvirs were permitted to return from exile without reprisals, an amnesty that finally permitted Livia and her husband and son to abandon their uncomfortable life on the run.

    Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010

  • This left the third triumvir, Lepidus, with responsibility for the province of Africa, and Octavian with jurisdiction over Italy and the unpopular task of repossessing land and redistributing it among the military troops who had been promised a reward for supporting the triumvirs against Brutus and Cassius.

    Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010

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