Meaning of trēsvirī | Babel Free

Definitions

1. three men holding an office together, or associated in public business, a board of three, three joint commissioners; especially:
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2. as overseers of prisons and streets nightlife
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3. as inferior priests: trēsvirī epulōnēs (sometimes given as triumvirī epulōnēs)
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4. as commissioners to distribute land among Roman colonists
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5. as officers of the mint
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Examples

“Quid faciam nunc, si tres viri me in carcerem compegerint?”

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“Redi. Quo fugis nunc? Tene, tene. ― Quid, stolide, clamas? — Quia ad tris viros iam ego deferam nomen tuom.”

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“Sed ut pontifices veteres propter sacrificiorum multitudinem tris viros epulones esse voluerunt, cum essent ipsi a Numa, ut etiam illud ludorum epulare sacrificium facerent, […]”

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“Et Narniensium legatis querentibus ad numerum sibi colonos non esse et immixtos quosdam non sui generis pro colonis se gerere, earum rerum causa tresviros creare L. Cornelius consul iussus.”

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“Diviserunt agrum coloniasque deduxerunt iidem tresviri, Q. Fabius Labeo, et M. et Q. Fuluii, Flaccus et Nobilior.”

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“Colonia Graviscae eo anno deducta est in agrum Etruscum, de Tarquiniensibus quondam captum. Quina iugera agri data; tresviri deduxerunt C. Calpurnius Piso P. Claudius Pulcher C. Terentius Istra.”

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“Sed, ut ego quoque te aliquid admoneam de vestris cautionibus, Treviros vites censeo: audio capitales esse; mallem auro, argento, aeri essent. Sed alias iocabimur.”

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