Triumvir

/tɹˈaɪəmvˌiə/

/tɹˈaɪəmvˌɪɹ/

[noun]

Triumvir

[NOUN]

one of a group of three sharing public administration or civil authority especially in ancient Rome

Examples

1. This next coin allows us some insight into the relations, or at least the promoted relations, between the triumvirs, between Mark Antony and Octavian.

2. That winter in Alexandria, the Queen and the Triumvir were inseparable.

3. The death of the triumvir and the destruction of his army destabilised the political situation in Rome, leading to an eventual fracture between Pompey and Caesar.

4. This was a formal alliance with official power to restore the State and like Sulla's dictatorship before them, which was also designated to restore the State, the triumvirs instituted proscriptions once again.