also was placed beyond those of the ordinary provincial governors with the highest imperium and auspicium. Even when the normal provincial proconsuls won triumphal victories, this overriding imperium and auspicium gave the triumvirs the legal right to reject triumphal honours for proconsuls or to take credit for those victories. This highest authority was reflected on the Capitoline Fasti, which note the triumvirs above the ordinary consuls. Such authority also gave them the right to sit between the consuls at meetings of the senate and to call the senate to meeting on their own authority. The three men did not alternate fasces – rotate through full authority with the other members taking veto powers – rather, given the Livian and Dionysian narratives on the Decemvirate, refrained from interference with each other. Doing so de facto suspended their mutual ius intercessionis. Term There were two kinds of magistracies in the Roman republic: those with a fixed term and those created for certain causa which would elapse only with the abdication, death, or abrogation of the magistrate. While the law established the magistracy with a term of five years, attaching a causa meant a triumvir's powers ceased only with their voluntary abdication, death, or abrogation. For example, when Lepidus was removed from the triumvirate in 36 BC, this was formally done by abrogation of his office ratified by the senate and people. Octavian clung to the powers ratified in the lex Titia until his "pompous abdication on 13 January 27" BC. Legacy While the constitution of the Roman Republic was not dismantled by the lex Titia, it never recovered its free character. It could be argued, however, that in Roman constitutional theory, the law's passage was simply an exercise of the sovereign people's legislative authority. Some scholars argue the creation of the triumvirate marks the end of the republic. Eventually, over the next two decades and the intervening civil wars, Octavian would emerge triumphant and create the Principate. See also List of Roman laws Enabling Act References Citations Sources External links The Roman Law Library, incl. Leges Augustus Roman law 43 BC