A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. By various writers. Ed. by William Smith. Illustrated by numerous engravings on wood.

TRIOPAS. TRIPTOLEMUS. 1175
rintius), and below ROMA. (Eckhel, vol. v. p. 199, Rhodos, and the father of Iphimedela and Erysifoil.) chthon (Apollod. i. 7. ~ 4; Diod. v. 56; Steph.
Byz. s. v. Tpirdriov; Ov. Met. viii. 751); he is also
called the father of Pelasgus.. (Paus. ii. 22. ~ 2.)
/i \,X=X He expelled the Pelasgians from the Dotian plain,
but was himself obliged to emigrate, and went to
Caria, where he founded Cnidus on the Triopian
promontory. (Diod. 1. e.; Herod. i. 174.) His son
_fi________ i Erysichthon was punished by Demeter with insatiable hunger, because he had violated her sacred
grove (Callim. Hymn. in Cer. 25, &c.); but others
relate the same of Triopas himself. (Hygin. Poet.
COIN OF C. CURIATIUS TRIGEMINUS. Astr. ii. 14; comp. Schol. ad Thleoerit. xvii. 69.)
The statue of Triopas with a horse stood at Delphi,
TRIGONEIA or TRITOGENEIA (TpryovEla being an offering of the Cnidians. (Paus. x. ] 1.
or TpLT'oyCveta), a daughter of Aeolus, and the ~ 1.)
wife of Minyas, or according to others, the mother 2. A son of Phorbas, an Argive, was the father
of Minyas by Poseidon. (Tzetz. ad Lye. 873; of Iasus, Agenor and Messene. (Paus. ii. 16. ~ I,
Schol. ad Pind. Pyth. iv. 120.) [L. S.] iv. 1. ~ 2.) [L. S.]
TRIO, L. FULCI'NIUS, a notorious informer TRI'PHYLUS (TpidpvXos), a son of Areas
under Tiberius (celebre inter accusator'es Trionis from whom Tryphylia, a portion of Elis, was beingeniunm, Tac. Ann. ii. 28), and one of the friends lieved to have derived its name. (Polyb. iv. 77;
and favourites of Tiberius. He is first mentioned Paus. x. 9. ~ 3.) [L. S.]
in A. D. 16, when he was the chief instrument in TRIPTO'LEMUS (TPL7r'rAeueos), a son of
procuring the condemnation of the praetor L. Scri- Celeus and Metaneira or Polymnia, or according to
bonius Libo. In A. D. 20 he accused Piso before others, a son of king Eleusis by Cothonea (or
the consuls, and in consequence of that service Cyntinea, or Hyona, Serv. ad Virg. Georg. i. 19;
was allowed by Tiberius to become a candidate Schol. ad Sltat. Theb. ii. 382.) Others again describe
for the higher honours of the state. In A. D. 31 him as a son of Oceanus and Gaea, as a younger
he was consul with P. Memmius Regulus, in which brother or relation of Celeus, as a son of Trochilus
year Sejanus was put to death. Being a friend of by an Eleusinian woman, as a son of Rharus by a
Sejanus, Trio was suspected of favouring his cause, daughter of Amphictyon, or lastly, as a son of
and vehement disputes arose in consequence be- Dysaules. (Hygin. Fab. 147; Apollod. i. 5. ~ 2
tween the two consuls. By pretending great Paus. i. 14. ~ 2; Hom. Hyn. in Cer. 153.) Trianxiety to bring the accomplices of Sejanus to jus- ptolemus was the favourite of Demeter, and the
tice, the fall of Trio was postponed for a short time; inventor of the plough and agriculture, and of
but in A. D. 35, having been accused and thrown civilisation, which is the result of it. He was the
into prison, he did not choose to wait till he was great hero in the Eleusinian mysteries. (Plin. H.
formally condemned, and therefore put an end to N. vii. 56; Callim. Hynzn. in Cer. 22; Virg. Georg.
his own life, after first making his will, in which i. 19.) According to Apollodorus, who makes
he attacked in the severest terms Macro and the Triptolemus a son of Celeus and Metaneira, Deprincipal freedmen of Tiberius, as well as the meter, on her arrival at Eleusis in Attica, undertook
emperor himself. (Tac. Ann. ii. 28, 30, iii. 10, as nurse the care of Demophon, a brother of
19, v. 11, vi. 4, 38; Dion Cass. lviii. 9, 25.) Triptolemus, who had just been born. In order to
TRIO, LUCRE'TIUS, known only from coins, make the child immortal, Demeter at night put
on which we find Cn. Lucretius Trio and L. Lu- him into a fire, but as Metaneira on discovering
cretius Trio. The specimen annexed has on the the proceeding, screamed out, the child was conobverse the head of the Sun, and on the reverse sumed by the flames. As a compensation for this
the Moon surrounded by the seven Triones, or the bereavement, the goddess gave to Triptolemus a
constellation of the Great Bear. (See Diet. of chariot with winged dragons and seeds of wheat.
Antiq. p. 147, 2d ed.) These devices, like many According to others Triptolemus first sowed barley
in modern heraldry, are a kind of punning on in the Rharian plain, and thence spread the cultithe name. The Sun and Moon give the greatest vation of grain all over the earth; and in later
light (/uc-em), and thus have reference to the times an altar and threshing floor of Triptolemus
gentile name Lucretius; while the seven Triones were shown there. (Paus. i. 38. ~ 6.) In the
are an evident allusion to the surname. (Eckhel, Homeric hymn on Demeter, Triptolemus is described
vol. v. p. 239.) as one of the chief men of the country, who like
other nobles is instructed by Demeter in her sacred
worship (123, 474, &c.); but no mention is
made of any relationship between him and Celeus.
- >XX Tte\ ~o~st~tY'.~aattW In the tradition related by Hyginus, who makes
o,~iA%4 if' all - E Triptolemus a son of Eleusis, Triptolemus himself
somea~~ Q 0 fiewas the boy whom the goddess wished to make immortal. Eleusis, who was watching her, was discovered by her and punished with instant death.
(Ov. Trist. iii. 8. 2.) Triptolemus, after having
COIN OF L. LUCRETIUS TRIO, received the dragon-chariot, rode in it all over the
earth, making man acquainted with the blessings
TRI'OPAS (Tptd7ras or TptSoe). 1. A son of of agriculture. (Comp. Panus vii. 18. ~ 2, viii. 4.
Poseidon and Canace, a daughter of Aeolus (Schol. ~ 1; Ov. Met. v. 646, &c.) On his return to
ad Callim. Hynmn. in Cer. 100) or of Helios and Attica, king Celeus wanted to kill him, but by the
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