τρεῖς: Difference between revisions

|Definition=οἱ, αἱ, [[τρία]], τά: gen. [[τριῶν]]: dat. [[τρισί]], also τριοῖσι Hippon. 51, and τρίεσσι Delph.3(5).80.21 (iv B. C.); Aeol. τρίσσι Inscr.Perg. 245 B18 (Pitana): acc. [[τρεῖς]] (written τρες IG12.24.16, 44.15, 188.37, 1085, al.), [[τρία]]: Dor. nom. [[τρέες]] Leg.Gort.9.48; τρῆς IG12(3).1640 (Thera); τρῖς SIG236A10 (Delph., iv B. C.), Tab.Heracl.1.23; acc. τρίινς Leg.Gort.5.54, al. (for [[Τρίνς]], lengthd. to correspond with the other cases); τρῖς IG12.838,839 (vi B. C.), SIG239 D ii 28 (Delph., iv B. C.), Berl.Sitzb.1927.158 (Cyrene):—[[three]], Il.15.187, etc.; [[τρία ἔπεα]] = [[three]] [[word]]s, [[proverb|prov.]] in Pi.N.7.48,—for from the earliest times [[three]] was a [[sacred]] and [[lucky]] number, esp. with the [[Pythagoreans]] (cf. [[τριάς]]), Arist.Cael.268a11; so τῶν τριῶν μίαν λαβεῖν εὔσοιαν S.Fr.122; εἰ καὶ τῶν τριῶν ἓν οἴσομαι ib.908; cf. [[σωτήρ]] 1.2:—διὰ τριῶν ἀπόλλυμαι I am [[thrice]], i. e. [[utterly]], [[undone]], E.Or.434 (cf. [[τριάζω]]); ἡ διὰ τριῶν [[ἀγωγή]] = the '[[trivium]]', Simp. in Ph.1171.34; ἵνα δήσῃ τρία τρία = [[by threes]], POxy.121.19 (iii A. D.). (I.-E. stem trǐ-, fuller form trey-, nom. tréy-es (Skt. tráyas, Lat. [[tres]]), whence [[τρέες]], contr. [[τρῆς]] and [[τρεῖς]] (written τρες IG12.295.11); acc. [[tri-ns]] (Goth. prins, Skt. trī΄n), whence [[τρῖς]] and τρίινς; in Gr. the nom. [[τρεῖς]] functions as acc. (as in Att.), or the acc. [[τρῖς]] as nom. (ll. cc.).)