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nouna group of three men responsible for public administration or civil authority

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But, he feigned not to notice the two strangers, and fell into discourse with the triumvirate of customers who were drinking at the counter.
Sam was then despatched for a hackney-coach, and in it the triumvirate proceeded to Coleman Street.
Then, amid a constant coming in, and going out, and running about, and a clatter of crockery, and a rumbling up and down of the machine which brings the nice cuts from the kitchen, and a shrill crying for more nice cuts down the speaking-pipe, and a shrill reckoning of the cost of nice cuts that have been disposed of, and a general flush and steam of hot joints, cut and uncut, and a considerably heated atmosphere in which the soiled knives and tablecloths seem to break out spontaneously into eruptions of grease and blotches of beer, the legal triumvirate appease their appetites.
The large cast includes Pompey, Spartacus, Mark Antony, Cicero, Cleopatra, Octavian, the first and second triumvirates and, of course, Julius Caesar.