τριττύς
ἀλλ' ἐπὶ καὶ θανάτῳ φάρμακον κάλλιστον ἑᾶς ἀρετᾶς ἅλιξιν εὑρέσθαι σὺν ἄλλοις → even at the price of death, the fairest way to win his own exploits together with his other companions | but even at the risk of death would find the finest elixir of excellence together with his other companions | but to find, together with other young men, the finest remedy — the remedy of one's own valor — even at the risk of death
English (LSJ)
ύος, ἡ (written τριτύς in Tim.Lex., Hsch.), Att. acc. pl.
A τριττῦς Arist.Ath.21.3, cf. Harp.:—the number three, Hsch., Phot.:— νικᾶν τριττύν win three victories, Philostr.Gym.33. II sacrifice of three animals, used specially on making solemn oaths,—boar, goat, and ram, Sch.Ar.Pl.820; bull, boar, and ram, Call.Fr.403; bull, goat, and boar, Ister 34; two sheep and an ox, Epich.187 (v. τριττύα). III at Athens, a third of the φυλή, IG12.190.7, 884, al., D.14.23, Aeschin.3.30, Arist.Ath.21.3: in form τριπτύς, IG12(5).594 (Ceos, iv B. C.). 2 third part of the πρυτάνεις, Arist. Ath.44.1.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
τριττύς: -ύος, ἡ, (φέρεται τριτὺς ἐν Τιμ. Λεξ. Πλάτ.), Ἀττ. πληθυντ. τριττῦς Ἁρπ.· - ὁ ἀριθμὸς τρία, τριάς, Λατιν. ternio, Ἡσύχ., Φώτ. ΙΙ. ὡς τὸ τριττύα, θυσία τριῶν ζῴων μάλιστα ἐπὶ σεμνοπρεποῦς ὁρκωμοσίας, ὡς τὸ παρὰ Ρωμαίοις suovetaurilia, - θυσία κάπρου, τράγου καὶ κριοῦ, Ἀριστοφ. Πλ. 820· ταύρου, τράγου καὶ κριοῦ, Καλλ. Ἀποσπ. 403· ταύρου, τράγου καὶ κάπρου, Ἴστρ. παρὰ Φωτ.· δύο προβάτων καὶ βοός, Ἐπίχ. παρ’ Εὐστ. 1676. 37· πρβλ. Ὀδ. Λ. 131. ΙΙΙ. ἐν Ἀθήναις τὸ τρίτον τῆς φυλῆς, Δημ. 184. 10, Αἰσχίν. 58. 8, Ἀριστ. Ἀποσπ. 347, 349. (Ὁ Αἰολ. τύπος τριππὺς ὁδηγεῖ ἡμᾶς εἰς τὸ Λατ. tribus, πρβλ. Δίωνος Κασσ. Ἀποσπ. 1. 1).
