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The term "triumvir" appears throughout literature to denote one among a group of three powerful figures, usually in a political or military context. In historical narratives, as seen in Cicero’s Tusculan Disputations, the term is applied to notable figures like Marcus Crassus, illuminating familial and generational distinctions in the accounts of political power struggles [1], [2], [3]. Similarly, Latin translations and geographies reinforce its usage, describing Crassus explicitly as a triumvir [4], [5]. Even in works such as Suetonius's Lives of the Twelve Caesars, the epithet is used to highlight significant relationships and personal anecdotes, as with Mark Antony being referred to as the triumvir [6], [7]. Additionally, in Carlyle’s historical narrative, the term crops up in contexts that evoke both political significance and personal imagery, further underlining the role of the triumvir in literary depictions of power [8].
  1. 60 M. Antonius was the grandfather of the triumvir; he was murdered the same year, 87 b.c. , by Annius, when Marius and Cinna took Rome.
    — from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations by Marcus Tullius Cicero
  2. adulescens = here like our junior , to distinguish him from his father, Marcus Crassus the triumvir.
    — from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce
  3. 58 This was the elder brother of the triumvir Marcus Crassus, 87 b.c.
    — from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations by Marcus Tullius Cicero
  4. 18 Marcus Crassus , the Triumvir of 60 B.C. asseruit = maintained .
    — from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce
  5. Crassus, Publius, i. 263 ; iii. 21 . ——, triumvir, iii. 157 , 159 .
    — from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) by Strabo
  6. It was a saying of his, that he lost a pair of eyes from his intimacy with Mark Antony, the triumvir 916 .
    — from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius
  7. [ The triumvir.
    — from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius
  8. And Saint-Just is standing motionless, pale of face; Couthon ejaculating, "Triumvir?" with a look at his paralytic legs.
    — from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

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