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τρι^άς , άδος, ἡ, (τρεῖς)
A.the number three, triad, Ion Hist.12 note, Pl. Phd.104a, al.; on its significance in the Pythag. philosophy, v. Arist.Cael.268a13, Metaph.1081a34, b12; τρισσὴν . . ἐτέων τριάδα (sc. γεγονώς), i. e. nine years old, Syria 5.338 (Sidon); τ. ἡ ἀκατονόμαστος, of the mystical Man from heaven (θεός—ἄγγελος—ἄνθρωπος παθητός), Zos.Alch.p.230 B.
2. ἡ τ. group of three days, “τελευτᾷ ἐν τῇ πρώτῃ τ.” Thphr.Vent.49; the third day, Ph.1.13.
3. system of three strophes, Heph.p.61C.
4. ἡ ἁγία T. the holy Trinity, Cod. Just.1.1.5.2, etc.
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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