Dictionary of Greek and Roman antiquities. Ed. by William Smith. Illustrated by numerous engravings on wood.

i162 TRIERARCHIA. TRIPOS.
viii. 116); and, on the authority of Ulpian (ad to rebuild them, at a cost for an ordinary trireme of
Demn. c. Mlid. 686), it has been believed that the 5000 drachmae. Supposing that they were not restate acted as Trierarch for each of them; but in leased from this liability by any decree of La court
the inscriptions quoted by Biickh (Urikunden, &c., of justice, and that the rebuilding was not comp.; 169), no difference is made between the Trier- pleted, he conceives that it must have been comarchs of the Paralus and other vessels, and there- petent (in a clear and flagrant case) for the senate
fore it would seem that the state appointed Trier- to have inflicted upon them the penalty of twice
archs for them as well as for other vessels, and 5000 drachmae, the technical phrase for which was
provided out of the public funds for those expenses " doubling the trireme." (Urkzunden, &c. p. 228.)
only which were peculiar to them. The phrase,uoAooyiXossp T'pL 7pl KaIV ca7ro&ooEie,
IV. On. the exemptions fr'omn the Triera'chy. - which occurs in inscriptions, does not apply to an
By an ancient law, in force B. C. 355 (Dem. c. undertaking for giving a new trireme, but merely
lept.), no person (but minors or females) could for putting one in a complete state of repair.
claim exemption from the Trierarchy, who were of The phrase paiVEP trAseoor, (Dem. c. Lacr. 941),
sufficient wealth to perform it, not even the de- to lay an information against a vessel, is used not
scendants of Harmodius and Aristogiton. But of a public ship, but of a private vessel, engagedfrom Isaeus (De Apoll. Hered. 67) it appears perhaps in smuggling or privateering. (Bickh, Publ.
that in the time of the single Trierarchy no person Econ. of Athlns, pp. 541-576, 2d ed.) [R. W.],
could be compelled to serve a second time within TRIEROPOII (rprnpoTroto). [NAvES, p.
two years after a former service (38o E'r? &laAx7r(cav). 785, a.]
The nine archons also were exempt, and the Trier- TRIGON. [PILA.]
archy was a ground of exemption from the other TRILIX. [TELA, p. 1102, b.]
liturgies, any of which, indeed, gave an exemption TRINUINDINUM. [NUNDINAE.]
from all the rest during the year next following TRIO'BOLON. [DICASTES, p. 402, b.]
that of its service. (Dem. c. Lept. 459, 464.) TRIO'BOLUS. LDRACHMA.]
But all property was not subject to the service, TRIPLICA'TIO. [ACTIO, p. 12, a.]
as we learn from Demosthenes (De Symm. 182. TRIPOS (v'perous), a tripod, i. e. any utensil
14), who tells us that a person was exempt, if or article of furniture supported upon three feet.
adSuvCaTos, or unable to serve from poverty; so More especially
also were "wards, heiresses, orphans, cleruchi, and I. A three-legged table. [MENSA.] The first
corporate bodies." Of course an heiress could only woodcut, at p. 308, shows such a table in use.
claim exemption while unmarried. Wards also Its three supports are richly and tastefully ornawere free from all liturgies, during their minority, Imented. Various single legs (trapezophzora, Cic.
and for a year after their otcLxaaia. (Lysias, c. ad Fars. vii. 23), wrought in the same style out
Diogit. 908.) By Kshcpo6Xol, are meant colonists, of white marble, red porphyry, or other valuable
who, while absent by the command of the state, materials, and consisting of a lion's-head or some
could not perform a Trierarchy. The Ta' KoLVWVCtd similar object at the top, and a foot of the same
admits of a doubt, but it probably means the pro- animal at the bottom, united by intervening foliage,
perty of joint tenants, as brothers or coheirs, which are preserved in the British Museum (Combe,
had not yet been apportioned to them (Pollux, Ancient Slanrbles, i. 3, i. 13, iii. 38) and in other
viii. 184),- or it may refer to monies invested in collections of antiquities. The tripod used at enpartnership. Moreover, though the proper duration tertainments to hold the CRATER had short feet,
of a Trierarchy was a year, it was legally dissolved so that it was not much elevated. These tables
if the general furnished no pay to the soldiers, were probably sometimes made to move upon
or if the ship put into the Peiraeeus, it being then castors. (Hom. II. xviii. 375).
impossible to keep the sailors together. (Dem, c. II. A pot or caldron, used for boiling meat,
Pblyc. 1209.) and either raised upon a three-legged stand of
V. On the legal proceedings connected with the bronze, as is represented in the woodcut, p. 827,
Tierarchy.-These were either between individual or made with its three feet in the same piece.
Trierarchs, or between Trierarchs and the state, Such a utensil was of great value, and was someand therefore in the form of a DIADICASIA. They times offered as a prize in the public games (xxiii,
generally arose in consequence of a Trierarch not 264, 702, 703).
delivering up his ship and her rigging in proper III. A bronze altar, not differing probably inl
order, either to his successor or to the state. If he its original form from the tall tripod caldron already
alleged that the loss or damage of either happened described. In this form, but with additional orfrom a storm, he was said KrlaCdTrOsal KaT' XELAWYta nament, we see it in the annexed woodcut, which
a7rohwoAveal, and if his plea were substantiated, represents a tripod found at Frejus. (Spon, Misc.
83oEV 1v y rp LKaCrTpLqT K. T. A. Vessels or furni- Erud. Ant. p. 118.) That this was intended to be
ture on which a trial of this kind had been held, used in sacrifice may be inferred from the bull'swere said to be 8iaSs5caer-E'va. head with a fillet tied round the horns, which we
The presidency of the courts which tried matters see at the top of each leg.
of this sort was vested in the strategi, and some- All the most ancient representations of the
times in the superintendents of the dockyard, sacrificial tripod exhibit it of the same general
in conjunction with the arorohotr'oes. The senate shape, together with three rings at the top to serve
also appears to have had a judicial power in these as handles (oe'a, Hom. II. xviii. 378). Since it
matters: e.g. we meet in various inscriptions with has this form on all the coins and other ancient
the phrase odet rcin,'rpTpeipXeosv, clsv Eo'rXwoev 7 remains, which have any reference to the Delphic
fBovhi)')Vy Qptqp77. Bdickh conjectures that the oracle, it has been with sufficient reason concluded
Trierarchs of whom this is said had returned their that the tripod, from which the Pythian priestess
ships in such a condition, that the state might have gave responses, was of this kind. The rightcalled upon them to put thernin thorough repair, or hand figure in the woodcut is copied from one'