Originally, triumviri were special commissions of three men appointed for specific administrative tasks apart from the regular duties of Roman magistrates.

These triumviri, or the tresviri nocturni, may also have taken some responsibility for fire control.

Three-man commissions were also appointed for purposes such as establishing colonies ( triumviri coloniae deducendae ) or distributing land.

In the late Republic, two three-man political alliances are called triumvirates by modern scholars, though only for the second was the term triumviri used at the time to evoke constitutional precedents:

This " three-man commission for restoring the constitution of the republic " ( triumviri rei publicae constituendae ) in fact was given the power to make or annul law without approval from either the Senate or the people ; their judicial decisions were not subject to appeal, and they named magistrates at will.

The singular of tresviri is triumvir ; triumviri is also sometimes used for the plural but is considered to be less correct.

The Lex Titia gave this " three-man commission for restoring the constitution of the republic " ( triumviri rei publicae constituendae ) the power to make or annul laws without approval from either the Senate or the people ; insulated their judicial decisions from appeal, and allowed the Triumvirs to name magistrates at will.

In Rome, the Roman republic was declared ( with Giuseppe Mazzini as one of the triumviri ).

He was one of the three men appointed triumviri mensarii, a commission created by a Lex Minucia, possibly to deal with a shortage of silver ; the full range of their financial activities is unclear.

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

The legal language makes reference to the traditional triumviri.

In various municipalities under the Principate, the chief magistracy was a college of three, styled triumviri.

* Publius Furius, one of the triumviri agro dando who were appointed after the taking of Antium, in 467 BC.

There were several notable exceptions: the prestigious, but largely ceremonial ( and lacking imperium ) positions of pontifex maximus and princeps senatus held one person each ; the extraordinary magistrates of Dictator and Magister Equitum were also one person each ; and there were three triumviri.

These men were also known collectively known as the tresviri monetales or sometimes, less correctly, as the triumviri monetales.

The triumviri settled some of their veterans here, whence it appears as Colonia Julia Felix Classica Suessa.

* the tresviri capitales, also known as nocturni-three magistrates who had a police function in Rome, in charge of prisons and the execution of criminals ;

" The capitales were first established around 290 – 287 BC.

Captal de Buch ( later Buché ) was an archaic feudal title in Gascony, captal from Latin capitalis " prime, chief " in the formula capitales domini or " principal lords.

Their new LP was titled La grasa de las capitales (" Grease ", or " Fat ", " of the Capitals ") and its cover was a joke directed at the magazine Gente.

According to Du Cange the designation captal ( capital, captau, capitau ) was applied loosely to the more illustrious nobles of Aquitaine, counts, viscounts, etc., probably as capitales domini, principal lords, though he quotes more fanciful explanations.

* Étude sur la fortification des capitales et l ' investissement des camps retranchés, 1873.

En typographie, enfin, certains suppriment tous les accents sur les capitales sous prétexte de modernisme, en fait pour réduire les frais de composition.

< nr > On veille donc, en bonne typographie, à utiliser systématiquement les capitales accentuées, y compris dans la préposition À, comme le font bien sûr tous les dictionnaires, à commencer par le Dictionnaire de l ’ Académie française ou les grammaires comme le Bon usage de Grevisse, mais aussi l ’ Imprimerie nationale, la Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, etc.

Something clicked in this instance, but I treated her circumspectly and I felt that she knew it, for we both kept our distance.

Had the situation been reversed, had, for instance, England been the enemy in 1898 because of issues of concern chiefly to New England, there is little doubt that large numbers of Southerners would have happily put on their old Confederate uniforms to fight as allies of Britain.

When it comes to this, I shall prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty -- to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, without the base alloy of hypocrisy '' ( His emphasis )

And if I have gone into so much detail about so small a work, that is because it is also so typical a work, representing the germinal form of a conflict which remains essential in Mann's writing: the crude sketch of Piepsam contains, in its critical, destructive and self-destructive tendencies, much that is enlarged and illuminated in the figures of, for instance, Naphta and Leverkuhn.

In town after town my companion pointed out the Negro school and the White school, and in every instance the former made a better appearance ( it was newer, for one thing ).

It would have been unwise policy, for instance, to apply the pound-of-flesh characterization to the thrifty Scotchman.

When some question arises in the medical field concerning cancer, for instance, we do not turn to free and open discussion as in a political campaign.

At the national and international level, then, what is the highest kind of morality for the private citizen represents an instance of political immorality.

Instead it means that the thinking in which decision issues has the power to determine the morality of the decision, as in this instance the pressure for renewed practical or legislative attention to the constitutional problems the decision had uncovered might have done.

In its dynamic form, it visualizes the community as the embodiment of an ontological force -- the race, for instance, which unfolds in history.

To you, for instance, the word innocence, in this connotation, probably retained its Biblical, or should I say technical sense, and therefore I suppose I must make myself quite clear by saying that I lost -- or rather handed over -- what you would have considered to be my innocence two weeks before I was legally entitled, and in fact by oath required, to hand it over along with what other goods and bads I had.

A lady, you made clear to me both by precept and example, never raised her voice or slumped in her chair, never failed in social tact ( in heaven, for instance, would not mention St. John the Baptist's head ), never pouted or withdrew or scandalized in company, never reminded others of her physical presence by unseemly sound or gesture, never indulged in public scenes or private confidences, never spoke of money save in terms of alleviating suffering, never gossiped or maligned, never stressed but always minimized the hopelessness of anything from sin to death itself.

for instance, imagine the situation if Israel ever joins an enemy coalition.

Read, for instance, in Malcolm MacDonald's Borneo People of Segura and her wise father Tomonggong Koh, and her final adjustment to encroaching civilization.

In the ideal state, for instance, he argues that the young citizens should hear only the most carefully selected tales and stories.

Then we have surviving at least one instance of a poem prepared for another, in Naturam non Pati Senium, and perhaps also the De Idea Platonica.

he usually draws some kind of comparison with the jazz tradition and the poem he is reading -- for instance, he draws the parallel between a poem he reads about an Oriental courtesan waiting for the man she loves, and who never comes, and the old blues chants of Ma Rainy and other Negro singers -- but usually the comparison is specious.

This session, for instance, may have insured a financial crisis two years from now.

This is that autistic people don't enjoy physical contact with others -- for instance, my children and I.

It would challenge sharply not the cult of the motor car itself but some of its ancillary beliefs and practices -- for instance, the doctrine that the fulfillment of life consists in proceeding from hither to yon, not for any advantage to be gained by arrival but merely to avoid the cardinal sin of stasis, or, as it is generally termed, staying put.

A reporter restricted to the competing propaganda statements of both sides in a major labor dispute, for instance, is unable to tell his readers half of what he knows about the causes of the dispute.

Russia, whose technology is not quite primitive, is still in the dark ages when it comes to improving the outboard motor, for instance.

In the colder climes, for instance, you will have to live through the many unglamorous winter months when your pool will hardly look its best.