A triumvirate or a triarchy is a political institution ruled or dominated by three powerful individuals known as triumvirs. The arrangement can be formal or informal. Though the three are notionally equal, this is rarely the case in reality.

What is the meaning triumvirate?

1 : a body of triumvirs. 2 : the office or government of triumvirs. 3 : a group or association of three.

What is triumviri capitale?

TRIUMVIRI CAPITALES or TREVIRI or TRESVIRI, Rom, civ. law. Officers who had charge of the prison, through whose intervention punishments were inflicted. Sallust in Catalin. They had eight lictors to execute their orders.