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

1176 TRITON. TROILUS.
command of Demeter he was obliged to give up his mouth, with the teeth of animals, sea-green eyes.
country to Triptolemus, which he now called after hands rough like the surface of a shell, and instead
his father Eleusis. He now established the worship of feet, a tail like that of dolphins. (Comp. Orpil.
of Demeter, and instituted the Thesmophoria. Hymn. 23. 4; Plin. H. T. xxxvi. 4, 7.) The chief
(HIygin. Fab. 147; comp. Dionys. Hal. i. 12; Ov. characteristic of Tritons in poetry as well as in
Fast. iv. 507, &c.) He had temples and statues works of art is a trumpet consisting of a shell
both at Eleusis and Athens (Pnus. i. 14. ~ 1, 38. (concha), which the Tritons blow at the command
~ 6.) Triptolemus is represented in works of art of Poseidon, to soothe the restless waves of the
as a youthful hero, sometimes with the petasus, on sea (Ov. Met. i. 333), and in the fight of the
a chariot drawn by dragons, and holding in his Gigantes this trumpet served to frighten the enehand a sceptre and corn ears. (See MUller, Anc. mies. (Hygin. Poet. Astr. ii. 23; comp. Pans. viii.
Art. and its Remt. ~ 358.) [L. S.] 2. ~ 3; Mosch. ii. 20; Virg. Ae4z. x. 209, &c.; Or.
TRITAEA (Tpii-aTa), a daughter of Triton, a Alet. ii. 8; Plin. H. iV. ix. 5.) Tritons were somepriestess of Athena, by whom Ares became the times represented with two horse's feet instead of
father of Melanippus, who gave to a town in Achaia arms, and they were then called Centaur-Tritons
the name of his mother. Sacrifices were offered or Ichthyocentaurs. (Tzetz. ad Lyc. 34,886, 892.)
there to Ares and Tritaea in the temple of Athena. Their figures are frequently mentioned in works of
(Pans. vii. 22. ~ 5, &c.) [L. S.] art, as in the sanctuary of Poseidon on the CorinTRITANNUS, a man distinguished for his thian isthmus (Paus. ii. 1. ~ 7), in the temple of
remarkable strength. (Cic. de Fin. i. 3; Plin. Dionysus at Tanagra (ix. 20. ~ 4; comp. Aelian,
H N. vii. 19. s. 20; Solin. c. 4.) H. A. xiii. 21), in the pediment of the temple of
TRITANTAECHMES (TpLTavToaLX1uits). 1. Saturn at Rome. (Macrob. Sat. i. 8; comp. Hirt,
A Persian satrap of Babylon, son of Artabazus. MAythol. Bilderb. p. 152; Miiller, Anc. Art. and its
(Herod. i. 192.) Rein. ~ 402.)
2. A son of Artabanus [No. 1], and a cousin 2. The god of lake Tritonis in Libya, is, like
therefore of Xerxes, was one of the commanders of Glaucus, a marine divinity connected with the story
the Persian infantry when the barbarians invaded of the Argonauts. (Apollon. Rhod. iv. 1552, &c.;
Greece in B. C. 480. After the battle of Thermo- Orph. Argon. 337; Tzetz. ad Lycoph. 34, 754;
pylae, when the Persians had been informed by Herod. iv. 179.) [L. S.]
some Arcadian deserters of the contests at Olympia TRITO'NIS (TP17Twvs). 1. A nymph of lake
for no other prize than a simple olive-crown, Tri- Tritonis in Libya, who according to an ancient
tantaechmes exclaimed that men who thus strove, tradition was the mother of Athena by Poseidon.
not for gain, but for glory, could not be attacked (Herod. iv. 180; Pind. Pyth. iv. 20.) By Amphiwith much chance of success, a sentiment which themis she became the mother of Nasamon and
Xerxes ascribed to cowardice. (Herod. vii. 82, Caphaurus. (Apollon. Rhod. iv. 1495.)
121, viii. 26.) [E. E.] 2. A surname of Athena, like Tritogeneia and
TRITO or TRITOGENEIA (TpTSrc or Tpr-o. Tritonia. (Apollon. Rhod. i. 72, 109; Virg. Aen.
yeveLa and Tproee'~v6s), a surname of Athena ii. 171.) [L. S.]
(Hom. n. iv. 515, Od. iii. 378; Hes. Thzeoq. 924), TROEZEN (Tpoi,'jv), a son of Pelops, and
which is explained in different ways. Some derive founder of the town of Troezen or Troezene. lie
it from lake Tritonis in Libya, near which she is was the father of Anaphlystus and Sphettus. (Paus.
said to have been born (Eurip. Ion, 872; Apollod. ii. 30. ~ 8, &c.; Parthen. Erot. 31.) [L. S.]
i. 3. ~ 6; comp. Herod. iv. ]50, 179); others from TROGUS, C. MA'RIUS, a triumvir of the
the stream Triton near Alalcomenae in Boeotia, mint under Augustus, occurs only on coins, a spewhere she was worshipped, and where according cimen of which is annexed. On the obverse is the
to some statements she was also born (Paus. ix. head of Augustus, and on the reverse two men
33. ~ 4; comp. Hom. II. iv. 8); the grammarians, standing, with the legend c. MARIVS C. F. TRO. Iln.
lastly, derive the name from Trprc which, in the vaR. (Eckhel, vol. v. p. 250.)
dialect of the Athamanians, is said to signify
"head," so that it would be the goddess born out
of the head of her father. (Schol. ad Apollon.
Rlhod. iv. 1310; comp. Hom. Hymn. 28. 4; Hes.
liseog. 924.) [L. S.]
TRITON (TpLrTwv). i. A son of Poseidon and
Amphitrite (or Celaeno), who dwelt with his father
and mother in a golden palace on the bottom of
the sea, or according to Homer (II. xiii. 20) at
Aegae. (Hes. Theog. 930, &c.; Apollod. i. 4. ~ 6.)
Later writers describe this divinity of the Medi- COIN OF C. MARIUS TROGUS.
terranean as riding over the sea on horses or other
sea-monsters. (Ov. 1Heroid. vii. 50; Cic. de Nat. TROGUS POMPEIUS. [JvsTINUS, p. 680,b.]
Deor. i. 28; Claudian, xxviii. 378.) Sometimes TROGUS, T. QUI'NTIUS, was accused by
also Tritons are mentioned in the plural, and as the quaestor M. Sergius. (Varr. L. L. vi. 90serving other marine divinities in riding over the 92, ed. Miiller.)
sea. Their appearance is differently described, TROGUS, SAUFEIUS. [SAUFEIUS, No. 6.]
though they are always conceived as presenting TROI'LUS (Tpw tAos), a son of Priam and Hethe human figure in the upper part of their bodies, cabe (Hom. II. xxiv. 257), or according to others
while the lower part is that of a fish. Pausanias a son of Apollo. (Apollod. iii. 12. ~ 5.) He fell by
(ix. 21. ~ 1]) says: the Tritons have green hair on the hands of Achilles (Virg. Aen. i. 474; Horat.
their head, very fine and hard scales, breathing Cares. ii. 9. 16; Cic. Tusc. i. 39); others relate
organs below their ears, a human nose, a broad that Achilles ordered Troilus who was made pri