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

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.

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 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.

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

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

The triumviri capitales, for instance, oversaw prisons and executions, along with other functions that, as Andrew Lintott notes, show them to have been " a mixture of police superintendents and justices of the peace.

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

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.

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

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

At the time Alex arrived he was engaged in some sort of intimate communication with the hen, who had settled herself on the nest most peacefully after the occurrences of the morning.

Historians identify several waves of migration to the United States: one from 1815 – 1860, in which some five million English, Irish, Germanic, Scandinavian, and others from northwestern Europe came to the United States ; one from 1865 – 1890, in which some 10 million immigrants, also mainly from northwestern Europe, settled, and a third from 1890 – 1914, in which 15 million immigrants, mainly from central, eastern, and southern Europe ( many Austrian, Hungarian, Turkish, Lithuanian, Russian, Jewish, Greek, Italian, and Romanian ) settled in the United States.

Most subsequent abeyances ( only a few dozen cases ) were settled after a few years, in favour of the holder of the family properties ; there were two periods in which long-abeyant peerages ( in some cases peerages of doubtful reality ) were brought back: between 1838 and 1841 and between 1909 and 1921.

The Virgin Islands were first settled by the Arawak from South America around 100 BC ( though there is some evidence of Amerindian presence on the islands as far back as 1500 BC ).

He took his old nurse with him as a servant and they settled down to live in Enfide, near a church to St Peter, in some kind of association with " a company of virtuous men " who were in sympathy with his feelings and his views of life.

The description of Benjamin being born after the arrival in Canaan is thought by some scholars to refer to the tribe of Benjamin coming into existence by branching from the Joseph group after the tribe had settled in Canaan.

Therefore, native Caymanians do not have any Amerindian heritage from their own islands ; however, a significant number of Jamaicans have settled in the Cayman Islands over the years, so they and their descendants may have some Amerindian blood via Jamaica.

Natives of Nzwani have settled in significant numbers on less crowded Mwali, causing some social tensions, and many Nzwani also migrate to Maore.

The valley is also settled by descendants of United Empire Loyalists, some of whom established fundamentalist Christian congregations in the area which continue to influence certain segments of society.

Also in Roman times, some Essenes settled on the Dead Sea's western shore ; Pliny the Elder identifies their location with the words, " on the west side of the Dead Sea, away from the coast ... the town of Engeda " ( Natural History, Bk 5. 73 ); and it is therefore a hugely popular but contested hypothesis today, that same Essenes are identical with the settlers at Qumran and that " the Dead Sea Scrolls " discovered during the 20th century in the nearby caves had been their own library.

But the text suggests that Grímr Kamban settled in the Faroes some time before.

And therefore someone may have settled or visited there some time before.

In contrast, some advocates of faith argue that the proper domain of faith concerns questions which cannot be settled by evidence.

The council settled, to some degree, the debate within the Early Christian communities regarding the divinity of Christ.

Followers of Hutton were known as Plutonists because they believed that some rocks were formed by vulcanism, which is the deposition of lava from volcanoes, as opposed to the Neptunists, led by Abraham Werner, who believed that all rocks had settled out of a large ocean whose level gradually dropped over time.

Towards the end of the 8th century all three kingdoms would be raided, settled and to some extent come under Viking control.

" After some initial trials with paper tape, he settled on punched cards ..." Hollerith came to use punched cards after observing how railroad conductors encoded personal characteristics of each passenger with punches on their tickets.

Jews fleeing Byzantium settled in the Baltic area, where the Khazar nobility and some of the population subsequently converted to Judaism.

Led by Rollo, some Vikings had settled in Normandy and were granted the land, first as counts and then as dukes, by King Charles the Simple, in order to protect the land from other raiders.

The fact that some Germans settled in Poland after 1939 and the treatment under German law of these ex-colonists as expellees are issues which add to the controversy.

Toward the end of the war India had increased her support for Tibetan refugees and revolutionaries, some of them having settled in India, as they were fighting the same common enemy in the region.

The I-Kiribati or Gilbertese people settled what would become known as the Gilbert Islands ( named for British captain Thomas Gilbert by von Krusenstern in 1820 ) some time in between 3000 BC and 1300 AD.

From then on, in keeping with the traditions they had followed since childhood, the whole group settled down to relish their food.

When they had licked the last of the wieners' taste from their fingers, they settled back, and Cappy offered Ernie a cigarette.

After she had served the detectives coffee and toast ( they politely declined eggs, uncomfortable about their tenancy ), she settled down with a morning newspaper and began reading the stock market quotations.

These are the centuries in which the inhabitants of the Aegean world settled firmly into their minds and into their institutions the foundations of the Hellenic outlook, independent of outside forces.

In addition, this country has been settled by many peoples of many heritages and their lore has become acculturated slowly, in an age of print and easy communication, within an ever-expanding and changing society.

With the beginning of the slow decline of the Ottoman Empire in the early 19th century, and as a result of the expansionist policies of Czarist Russia in the Caucasus, many Muslim nations and groups in that region, mainly Circassians, Tatars, Azeris, Lezgis, Chechens, and several Turkic groups left their ancestral homelands and settled in Anatolia.

They settled first in the Ancient Pueblo areas for a few hundred years, then migrated to their current location.

Mark J. Hudson Professor of Anthropology at Nishikyushu University, Kanzaki, Saga, Japan, said Japan was settled by a " Proto-Mongoloid " population in the Pleistocene who became the Jōmon and their features can be seen in the Ainu and Okinawan people.

The deceased's sons would receive only whatever property and riches their father had settled upon them and whatever additional lands their uncle had acquired.

In addition, many speech communities on the East Coast have existed in their present locations for centuries, while the interior of the country was settled by people from all regions of the existing United States and developed a far more generic linguistic pattern.

Young and Duke then settled down for their first meal on the surface.

Arbor Day reached its height of popularity on its 125th anniversary in 1997, when David J. Wright, noticed that a Nebraska nonprofit organization called the National Arbor Day Foundation had taken the name of the holiday and commercialized it for their own use as a trademark for their publication " Arbor Day ," so he countered their efforts, launched a website, and trademarked it for " public use celebrations " and defended the matter in a federal district court in the United States to ensure it was judged as property of the public domain, the case was settled in October 1999.

The Angles were one of the main groups that settled in Britain in the post-Roman period, founding several of the kingdoms of Anglo-Saxon England, and their name is the root of the name England.

British, German, Jewish, and other immigrants also settled in Argentina, all bringing their styles of cooking and favorite foods with them.

However, in his attempts to conquer Moravia, in 899 Arnulf invited across the Magyars who had settled in Pannonia, and with their help he imposed a measure of control on Moravia.

Again, other parts of the Boii had remained closer to their traditional home, and settled in the Slovak and Hungarian lowlands by the Danube and the Mura, with a centre at Bratislava.

After joining them in 1942, their son, Péter Bartók, enlisted in the United States Navy where he served in the Pacific during the remainder of the war and later settled in Florida where he became a recording and sound engineer.

In 842, with their chieftain Björn Ironside they launched a large-scale inland offensive and settled outside the city on the river bank.

In contrast, numerous other Arab states opposed the Libyan actions, and expressed their desire to see the dispute over the Aozou Strip settled peacefully.

Many foreigners from other parts of the world settled Cape Verde as their permanent country.