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τρίκλι_ν-ος , ον,
A.with three couches, “θάλαμοι” Moschio ap.Ath.5.207c; “τ. οἶκοι” Ath.2.47f, cf. Poll.6.7.
II. Subst. τρίκλινος (sc. οἶκος), ὁ, AB114, Eust. 1573.29, Gloss.; also τρίκλινον , τό, SIG1097.29 (Athens, iv B. C.), Anaxandr.70, Arched.2.12, Plb.30.26.3, BGU388 ii 21 (ii A. D.):— dining-room with three couches, “συναγαγὼν τρεῖς ὄντας εἰς τ.” Antiph. 299.
2. τ. συγγενείας a family party, Men.923.1; ὅλον τ. (acc.) a whole dinner-party, Dsc.5.71, cf. Anaxandr. l. c., Arched. l. c.
3. set of three couches, “οὐχ ὑποστρώσεις τ.;” Amphis 46, cf. SIG l. c., Plb. l. c., Plu.Caes.55, POxy.1277.7, 23 (iii A. D.).
III. τρίκλινος ἤτοι ὡρεῖον a barn (?) or a granary, Hero *Stereom.1.46.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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