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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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... of feeling of which we have spoken are conspicuous in the following Ode (IV. 2), addressed to Iulus Antonius, the son of the triumvir, of whose powers as a poet nothing is known beyond the implied recognition of them contained in this Ode. The Sicambri, with two other German tribes, had crossed the Rhine, laid waste part of the Roman territory in ...

— Horace • Theodore Martin

... to remind men that the principles involved in the movements of the Church are of the same nature as those involved in the movements of the state, the resemblances here pointed out are sometimes singularly illustrated in trifling details. The Bishop of Alexandria was not the first triumvir who came to an untimely end on the banks of the Nile; the Roman pontiff was not the first who consolidated his power by the ...

— History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) - Revised Edition • John William Draper

... Hungary under such heartrending circumstances in the year 1848. The general public of France was represented among the spectators by M. Glais-Bizoin, who made a less fine effect, as those who have known the triumvir of Tours in 1870 will readily believe. He was one of the ugliest men ...

— Memoirs • Prince De Joinville

Words linked to "Triumvir" : administrator, executive