τρίβολος
Ὁ θάνατος οὐθὲν πρὸς ἡμᾶς, ἐπειδήπερ ὅταν μὲν ἡμεῖς ὦμεν, ὁ θάνατος οὐ πάρεστιν, ὅταν δὲ ὁ θάνατος παρῇ, τόθ' ἡμεῖς οὐκ ἐσμέν. → Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.
English (LSJ)
[ῐ], ὁ, name of various prickly plants, a water-chestnut, Trapa natans, τ. ἔνυδρος Thphr.HP4.9.1, Dsc.4.15. b caltrops, Tribulus terrestris, Ar.Lys.576; τ. περικαρπιάκανθος, χερσαῖος, Thphr.HP3.1.6, 6.1.3, Dsc. l.c.; ἄκανθαι καὶ τ. LXX Ge.3.18; βάτοι καὶ τ. Ph.1.680, cf. IG14.1934f1 (Rome):—Alc.47 calls sour wine ὀξύτερος τριβόλων. c τ. φυλλάκανθος, thorny trefoil, Fagonia cretica, Thphr.HP6.5.3. d τ. παραθαλάσσιος, prickly samphire, Echinophora spinosa, Hp.Nat.Mul.32. II τρίβολοι, οἱ, a threshing-machine, a board with sharp stones fixed in the bottom, Ph.Bel.85.36, al., LXX 2 Ki.12.31, Longus 3.30; τ. ξύλινος (in the section περὶ κάρρων) Edict.Diocl.15.41; τριβόλους ἀχυρότριβας AP6.104 (Phil.). III caltrop, i. e. a four-spiked implement thrown on the ground to lame the enemy's horses, Ph.Bel.100.7, Plu.2.200a, Polyaen.1.39.2, 4.3.17, Hdn.4.15.2, Procop.Goth.3.24. b τ. πηχῶν έ a larger contrivance for stopping boulders, etc., thrown down a slope, Ath.Mech. 38.2. c οἱ κατακρημνώμενοι τ. an instrument hung from the walls of a fortress as a defence against battering-rams, Ph.Bel.100.15. d a kind of missile, τριβόλων σιδηρῶν σφενδονῆται D.H.20.1; οἱ τ. οἱ καιόμενοι a kind of incendiary missile, Ph.Bel.100.20, cf. 94.9. IV part of the bit of a bridle, PCair.Zen.782 (a).9 (iii B. C.), Poll.1.148, Hsch. V dub. sens. in naval dockyard records, σίδηρος ἐκ τοῦ τ. IG22.1629.1154, 1631.338. VI as Adj., three-tiered, πυρὰ πυργοειδὴς τ. D.C.74.5.
