School dictionary of Greek and Roman antiquities . emulationand competition were produced. More-over the trierarchs were virevdupoi, or liableto be called to account for their expendi-ture ; though they applied their own pro-perty to the service of the state. The trierarchy was a ground of exemptionirbm the other liturgies, any of which, indeed,ave an exemption from all the rest duringhe year next following that of its service. TRINUNDINUM. [Nundinae.] TRfOBOLON (TpL(i€o\ov), the fee of:hree obols, which the Athenian dicasts re-:;eived. [Dicastae. ] TRIPOS (rpiiTovs), a tripod, i. e. anyatensi
School dictionary of Greek and Roman antiquities . emulationand competition were produced. More-over the trierarchs were virevdupoi, or liableto be called to account for their expendi-ture ; though they applied their own pro-perty to the service of the state. The trierarchy was a ground of exemptionirbm the other liturgies, any of which, indeed,ave an exemption from all the rest duringhe year next following that of its service. TRINUNDINUM. [Nundinae.] TRfOBOLON (TpL(i€o\ov), the fee of:hree obols, which the Athenian dicasts re-:;eived. [Dicastae. ] TRIPOS (rpiiTovs), a tripod, i. e. anyatensil or article of furniture supportedpon three feet. More especially, 1. A;hree-legged table. 2. A pot or caldron,sed for boiling meat, and either raisedipon a three-legged stand of bronze, ornade with its three feet in the same A bronze altar, not differing probably in original form from the tall tripod described. In this form, but with ditional ornament, we see it in the lelt-d figure in the annexed cut. TRIUMPH US. 385. U L^ TRirons. The figure on the right hand representsthe tripod from which the Pythian priestessat Delphi gave responses. The celebrityof this tripod produced innumerable imita-tions of it, which were made to be used insacrifice, and still more frequently to bepresented to the treasury both in that placeand in many other Greek temples. TRIPUDIUM. [Auspicium.] TRIREMIS. [Navis.] TRIUMPHUS (^plaixeos), a solemnprocession, in which a victorious generalentered the city in a chariot drawn by fourhorses. He was preceded by the captivesand spoils taken in war, was followed byhis troops, and after passing in state alongthe Via Sacra, ascended the capitol to offersacrifice in the temple of Jupiter. From the beginning of the republic downto the extinction of liberty a regular tri-umph {jtistus triumphus) was recognised asthe summit of military glory, and was thecherished object of ambition to every Ro-man general. A triumph might be grantedfor s
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