tresviri

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

tres-vĭri, ōrum, m.,

three men holding an office together , or associated in public business , a board of three , three joint commissioners; as overseers of prisons, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 3; id. Aul. 3, 2, 2.—As inferior priests: tresviri epulones, Cic. de Or. 3, 19, 73 (v. epulo).—As commissioners to distribute land among colonists, Liv. 32, 2, 6; 39, 44, 10; 40, 29, 2; cf. also under Treveri.

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