τρίοδος
καὶ ἤδη γε ἄπειμι παρὰ τὸν ἑταῖρον Κλεινίαν, ὅτι πυνθάνομαι χρόνου ἤδη ἀκάθαρτον εἶναι αὐτῷ τὴν γυναῖκα καὶ ταύτην νοσεῖν, ὅτι μὴ ῥεῖ. ὥστε οὐκέτι οὐδ' ἀναβαίνει αὐτήν, ἀλλ' ἄβατος καὶ ἀνήροτός ἐστιν → and now I depart for my companion, Cleinias since I have learned that for some time now his wife is unclean and she is ill because she does not flow, therefore he no longer sleeps with her but she is unavailable and untilled
English (LSJ)
[ῐ], ἡ,
A = τριοδία, a meeting of three roads, Thgn.911, Pi.P. 11.38 (where the pl. [cj.] is used for the sg., cf. Mosch.1.2, Epigr.Gr. 841 (Thrace), IG3.1418.2); τροχήλατος σχιστῆς κελεύθου τρίοδος A. Fr.173, cf. E.Supp.1212, Pherecr.130.3 (anap., pl.), Ar.Fr.204 (pl.), Pl.Grg.524a, etc. 2 [Ἑκάτη] ναίουσ' ἱερὰς τ. S.Fr.535 (anap.); ἁ θεὸς ἐν τριόδοισι Theoc.2.36; the τρίοδοι were frequented by fortune-tellers and loungers, Thphr.Char.16.5,14, Aristid.Or.22 (19).10; φαρμακοπώλης ἐκτριόδου Gal.9.823; ἐκτῆς τ. ἰατροί Id.10.786: hence οἷα ἐκ τριόδου, i. e. vulgar, Luc.Hist.Conscr.16, etc.; λοιδορίαι ἐξ ἐργαστηρίων καὶ τριόδων D.C. 46.4; of certain women, τρίοδοί τινες . . ἐγένοντο Clearch.25 (τριοδίτιδες cj. Lobeck). 3 prov. also of persons in doubt, ἐν τριόδῳ δ' ἕστηκα Thgn.l.c.; στὰς... καθάπερ ἐν τ. γενόμενος Pl.Lg.799c; ἐν τ. εἰμί Zen.3.78, etc. 4 a measure in Egypt, μέτρῳ τῷ καλουμένῳ BGU920.21 (ii A. D.). 5 the 'trivium', Simp.in Cael.131.28. 6 metaph., τὰς συμφωνούσας ἁρμονίας τ. Ion Eleg.3.2. II perh. = τετραοδία, Chrysipp. ap. S.E.P.1.69 (cf. Stoic.2.206).
