tres-vĭri

I. 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.