The tresviri capitales or tresviri nocturni were one of the Vigintisexviri colleges in Ancient Rome. They were a group of three men that managed police...

including those dealing with whether a man was free or a slave; the tresviri capitales, also known as nocturni – three magistrates who had a police function...

peace." The capitales were first established around 290 to 287 BC. They were supervised by the praetor urbanus. These triumviri, or the tresviri nocturni...

begun his career in the least favored post in the vigintivirate, the tresviri capitales, later receiving an emperor's backing in his candidature for a higher...

These were the tresviri nocturni, and the aediles also helped put out fires. The tresviri nocturni, later known as tresviri capitales, had a small group...

can be reconstructed. As a teenager, Praesens was a member of the tresviri capitales, one of the magistracies that comprised the vigintiviri. This was...

inflict punishments at their magistrate's command. Magistrates such as tresviri capitales, procurators fiscal and quaestors investigated crimes. There was no...

military tribune with Legio IV Macedonica. He was then appointed as a tresviri capitales, one of the four magistracies that comprised the vigintiviri; this...

"he may have been a provincial." His first recorded office was as a tresviri capitales, one of the magistracies that comprised the vigintiviri. This was...

rarely had a successful career: Anthony Birley could find only five tresviri capitales who went on to be governors of consular imperial provinces. His next...