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TRINTJNDINUM.
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TRIUMPHUS.
gave an exemption from all the rest during
the following year.
TKlNUNDlNUM. [Nundinae.]
TR10BOLON* (tpmPo\ov), the fee of three
ohols, which the Athenian dicasts received.
[Dicaptae.]
TRIPOS (toiVous), a tripod, i.e. any uten-
sil or article of furniture supported upon
three feet. More especially (1) A three-
legged table.—(2) A pot or caldron, used for
boiling meat, and either raised upon a three-
legged stand of bronze, or made with its
three feet in the same piece.—(3) A bronze
altar, not differing probably in its original
form from the tall tripod caldron already de-
scribed. It was from a tripod that the
Pythian priestess at Delphi gave responses.
[Cortina.] The celebrity of this tripod pro-
duced innumerable imitations of it, which
were made to be used in sacrifice, and still
more frequently to be presented to the trea-
sury both in that place and in many other
Greek temples.
Tnpod of Apollo ;it Delphi. (Hottiner's Amaltbea, vol. ).
p. 119.)
TRIPUDIUM. [Auspicivm.]
TRIRKMIS. [Navis.]
TRIUMPHt'S (0piV/3°s), a solemn pro-
cession, in which a victorious general entered
the city in a chariot drawn by four horses.
He was preceded by the captives and spoils
taken in war, was followed by his troops,
and after passing in state along the Via
Sacra, ascended the Capitol to offer sacrifice
in the temple of Jupiter. From the beginning
of the republic down to the extinction of
liberty a regular triumph {Justus triutnphus)
was recognised as the summit of military
glory, and was the cherished object of am-
bition to every Roman general. A triumph
might be granted for successful achievements
either by land or sea, but the latter were
comparatively so rare that we shall for the
present defer the consideration of the naval
triumph. After any decisive battle had been
won, or a province subdued by a series of
successful operations, the imperator for-
warded to the senate a laurel-wreathed dis-
patch (literae laureatae), containing an ac-
count of his exploits. If the intelligence
proved satisfactory, the senate decreed a
public thanksgiving. [Supplicatio.] After
the war was concluded, the general with his
army repaired to Rome, or ordered his army
to meet him there on a given day, hut did not
enter the city. A meeting of the senate was
held without the walls, usually in the temple
either of Bellona or Apollo, that he might
have an opportunity of urging his pretensions
in person, and these were then scrutinised
and discussed with the most jealous care.
The following rules were for the most part
rigidly enforced, although the senate assumed
the discretionary power of relaxing them in
special cases. 1. That no one could be per-
mitted to triumph unless he had held the
office of dictator, of consul, or of praetor.
The honours granted to Pompey, who tri-
umphed in his 24th year (b. c. 81) before he
had held any of the great offices of state, and
again ten years afterwards, while still a
simple eques, were altogether unprecedented.
2. That the magistrate should have been
actually in office both when the victory was
gained and when the triumph was to be cele-
brated. This regulation was insisted upon
only during the earlier ages of the common-
wealth. Its violation commenced with Q.
Publilius Philo, the first person to whom the
senate ever granted a prorogatio imperii after
the termination of a magistracy, and thence-
forward proconsuls and propraetors were
permitted to triumph without question. 3.
That the war should have been prosecuted or
the battle fought under the auspices and in
the province and with the troops of the
general seeking the triumph. Thus if a vic-
tory was gained by the legatus of a general
who was absent from the army, the honour of
it did not belong to the former, but to the
latter, inasmuch as he had the auspices. 4.
That at least 5000 of the enemy should have
been slain in a single battle, that the advan-
tage should have been positive, and not
merely a compensation for some previous
disaster, and that the loss on the part of the
Romans should have been small compared
with that of their adversaries. But still we
find many instances of triumphs granted for
general results, without reference to the
numbers slain in any one engagement. 5.
39
4
TRIUMPHUS.
gave an exemption from all the rest during
the following year.
TKlNUNDlNUM. [Nundinae.]
TR10BOLON* (tpmPo\ov), the fee of three
ohols, which the Athenian dicasts received.
[Dicaptae.]
TRIPOS (toiVous), a tripod, i.e. any uten-
sil or article of furniture supported upon
three feet. More especially (1) A three-
legged table.—(2) A pot or caldron, used for
boiling meat, and either raised upon a three-
legged stand of bronze, or made with its
three feet in the same piece.—(3) A bronze
altar, not differing probably in its original
form from the tall tripod caldron already de-
scribed. It was from a tripod that the
Pythian priestess at Delphi gave responses.
[Cortina.] The celebrity of this tripod pro-
duced innumerable imitations of it, which
were made to be used in sacrifice, and still
more frequently to be presented to the trea-
sury both in that place and in many other
Greek temples.
Tnpod of Apollo ;it Delphi. (Hottiner's Amaltbea, vol. ).
p. 119.)
TRIPUDIUM. [Auspicivm.]
TRIRKMIS. [Navis.]
TRIUMPHt'S (0piV/3°s), a solemn pro-
cession, in which a victorious general entered
the city in a chariot drawn by four horses.
He was preceded by the captives and spoils
taken in war, was followed by his troops,
and after passing in state along the Via
Sacra, ascended the Capitol to offer sacrifice
in the temple of Jupiter. From the beginning
of the republic down to the extinction of
liberty a regular triumph {Justus triutnphus)
was recognised as the summit of military
glory, and was the cherished object of am-
bition to every Roman general. A triumph
might be granted for successful achievements
either by land or sea, but the latter were
comparatively so rare that we shall for the
present defer the consideration of the naval
triumph. After any decisive battle had been
won, or a province subdued by a series of
successful operations, the imperator for-
warded to the senate a laurel-wreathed dis-
patch (literae laureatae), containing an ac-
count of his exploits. If the intelligence
proved satisfactory, the senate decreed a
public thanksgiving. [Supplicatio.] After
the war was concluded, the general with his
army repaired to Rome, or ordered his army
to meet him there on a given day, hut did not
enter the city. A meeting of the senate was
held without the walls, usually in the temple
either of Bellona or Apollo, that he might
have an opportunity of urging his pretensions
in person, and these were then scrutinised
and discussed with the most jealous care.
The following rules were for the most part
rigidly enforced, although the senate assumed
the discretionary power of relaxing them in
special cases. 1. That no one could be per-
mitted to triumph unless he had held the
office of dictator, of consul, or of praetor.
The honours granted to Pompey, who tri-
umphed in his 24th year (b. c. 81) before he
had held any of the great offices of state, and
again ten years afterwards, while still a
simple eques, were altogether unprecedented.
2. That the magistrate should have been
actually in office both when the victory was
gained and when the triumph was to be cele-
brated. This regulation was insisted upon
only during the earlier ages of the common-
wealth. Its violation commenced with Q.
Publilius Philo, the first person to whom the
senate ever granted a prorogatio imperii after
the termination of a magistracy, and thence-
forward proconsuls and propraetors were
permitted to triumph without question. 3.
That the war should have been prosecuted or
the battle fought under the auspices and in
the province and with the troops of the
general seeking the triumph. Thus if a vic-
tory was gained by the legatus of a general
who was absent from the army, the honour of
it did not belong to the former, but to the
latter, inasmuch as he had the auspices. 4.
That at least 5000 of the enemy should have
been slain in a single battle, that the advan-
tage should have been positive, and not
merely a compensation for some previous
disaster, and that the loss on the part of the
Romans should have been small compared
with that of their adversaries. But still we
find many instances of triumphs granted for
general results, without reference to the
numbers slain in any one engagement. 5.