Τριτογένεια: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ἡ, (γίγνομαι) <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> <b class="b2">Trito-born</b>, a name of Athena, <span class="bibl">Il.4.515</span>, <span class="bibl">8.39</span>, <span class="bibl">Od.3.378</span>, <span class="bibl">Hes.<span class="title">Th.</span>895</span>,<span class="bibl">924</span>, <span class="title">IG</span>14.1389ii 1. (Variously expld. in antiquity, from the lake <b class="b3">Τριτωνίς</b> in Libya, from which an old legend represents the goddess to have been born, <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Ion</span>872</span> (anap.), cf. <span class="bibl">Hdt.4.180</span>; or from Triton, a torrent in Boeotia, <span class="bibl">Paus.9.33.7</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Apollod.1.3.6</span>; or from a spring in Arcadia, <span class="bibl">Paus.8.26.6</span>; or from <b class="b3">τριτώ</b>, Aeol. word for <b class="b3">κεφαλή</b> (Sch.<span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Nu.</span>985</span>, Tz.ad Lyc.519; Athamanian acc. to Nic. (<span class="title">Fr.</span>145) ap.Hsch.), i.e. <b class="b2">head-born;</b> or, <b class="b2">born on the third day</b> of the month, <span class="bibl">Ister 26</span> (the 23rd, <b class="b3">τρίτῃ φθίνοντος</b>, Sch.BT <span class="bibl">Il.8.39</span>); or, <b class="b2">the third child</b> after Apollo and Artemis, Suid. s.v. [[τριτογενής]]; or, as representing Nature, [[born thrice]] in the year, <span class="bibl">D.S.1.12</span>; or because she was <b class="b2">author of the three main bonds</b> of social life, <span class="bibl">Democr.1b</span>,<span class="bibl">2</span>.) </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> the Pythagoreans gave the name <b class="b3">Ἀθηνᾶ τ</b>. to <b class="b2">the equilateral triangle</b>, Plu.2.381e; cf. <b class="b3">τρεῖς, τριάς</b>.</span>