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Definition of Triumvir
1. Noun. One of a group of three sharing public administration or civil authority especially in ancient Rome.
Definition of Triumvir
1. n. One of tree men united in public office or authority.
Definition of Triumvir
1. Noun. One member of a triumvirate ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Triumvir
1. one of a ruling body of three in ancient Rome. [n -VIRS or -VIRI]
Medical Definition of Triumvir
1. One of tree men united in public office or authority. In later times the triumvirs of Rome were three men who jointly exercised sovereign power. Julius Caesar, Crassus, and Pompey were the first triumvirs; Octavianus (Augustus), Antony, and Lepidus were the second and last. Origin: L, fr. Res, gen. Trium, three + vir a man. See Three, and Virile. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Triumvir
Literary usage of Triumvir
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"... which have been so unworthily applied to the infant son of a consul, or a
triumvir,(61) but if a more splendid, and indeed specious, interpretation of ..."
2. Woman: In All Ages and in All Countries by Edward Bagby Pollard, Mitchell Carroll, Alfred Brittain, Pierce Butler, John Robert Effinger, Hugo Paul Thieme, Hermann Schoenfeld, Bartlett Burleigh James, John Ruse Larus (1908)
"For this reason her marriage to Antony was as great a failure in the purpose for
which it was intended —the winning of the triumvir from his infatuation—as ..."
3. A History of Rome from the Earliest Times to the Establishment of the Empire by Henry George Liddell (1855)
"P. Crassus elected triumvir to succeed Ti. Gracchus : Nasica obliged to quit Rome.
§ 3. A Commission issued to try the accomplices of Gracchus. § 4. ..."
4. Descriptive Catalogue of a Cabinet of Roman Imperial Large-brass Medals by William Henry Smyth (1834)
"... С. Struck by a triumvir of the ancient but plebeian family Licinia ; he was
a descendant of that Licinius Stole, the inveterate enemy of the patricians, ..."
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