tresviri

• trīsvirī

From trēs +‎ virī. Compare triumvirī.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈtreːs.wɪ.riː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈtrɛz.vi.ri]

trēsvirī m pl (genitive trēsvirōrum); second declension

1. three men holding an office together, or associated in public business, a board of three, three joint commissioners; especially:
   1. as overseers of prisons and streets nightlife
      • c. 190 BCE – 185 BCE, Plautus, Amphitryon 155:

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

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      • c. 186 BCE, Plautus, Aulularia 3.2.2:

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

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   2. as inferior priests: trēsvirī epulōnēs (sometimes given as triumvirī epulōnēs)
      • 55 BCE, Cicero, De Oratore 3.19.73:

        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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   3. as commissioners to distribute land among Roman colonists
      • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 32.2.6:

        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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      • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 39.44.10:

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

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      • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 40.29.2:

        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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        ; cf. also under Treveri.
   4. as officers of the mint
      • 62 BCE – 43 BCE, Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares 7.13.3, (here a pun on the Trevīrī):

        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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Second-declension noun, plural only.

• triumvir

• “tresviri”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “tresviri”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.