Τριτογένεια: Difference between revisions

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