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θρίαμβος [ι^], ὁ,
A.hymn to Dionysus, sung in festal processions to his honour, Cratin.36.
2. epith. of Dionysus, Trag.Adesp.140, D.S. 4.5, Ath.1.30b, Plu.Marc.22, Arr.An.6.28.2.
3. metaph., scandal, δεδιὼς τὸν ἐκ λόγων θ. Conon 31.1.
II. = Lat. triumphus (which is borrowed fr. θ. through Etruscan), Plb.6.15.8, D.S.12.64, Mon. Anc.Gr.2.20, SIG804.9 (Cos, i A.D.), Plu.Publ.20, etc.; ὁ μέγας θ. the triumph, opp. ὁ ἐλάττων θ. ovatio, Id.Marc.22, cf. D.H.8.67; ὁ πεζὸς θ.,= ovatio, Id.9.36. (For the termination perh. cf. ἴαμβος, διθύραμβος, but the origin of θρι- is unknown.)
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (9):
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 12.64
    • Polybius, Histories, 6.15.8
    • Plutarch, Publicola, 20
    • Plutarch, Marcellus, 22
    • Arrian, Anabasis, 6.28.2
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 2.20
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 4.5
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, 8.67
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, 9.36
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