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|lshtext=<b>trĭvĭum</b>: i, n. ter-via.<br /><b>I</b> Lit., a [[place]] [[where]] [[three]] roads [[meet]], a [[fork]] in the roads, [[cross]]-[[road]]: ut ventum est in [[trivium]], Cic. Div. 1, 54, 123.—<br /><b>II</b> Transf., in gen., a [[public]] [[square]], the [[public]] [[street]], [[highway]]; plur.: in triviis aut in compitis, Cic. Agr. 1, 3, 7: nocturnisque [[Hecate]] triviis ululata per urbes, Verg. A. 4, 609; Lucr. 4, 1203: occurram in triviis, Hor. S. 1, 9, 59; id. Ep. 1, 16, 64; 1, 17, 58; id. A. P. 245.— Sing.: pueros in trivio docere, Just. 21, 5; Tib. 1, 1, 12 (22).—Prov.: arripere [[maledictum]] ex trivio, i. e. [[out]] of the [[street]], from the [[mob]], Cic. Mur. 6, 13.
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