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τρι^τ-αῖος , α, ον,
A.on the third day, used with Verbs so as to agree with the subject, “τριταῖοι ἐγένοντο ἐν τῇ Ἀττικῇ” Hdt.6.120, cf. Hp.Aph.4.36, Th.1.61, 3.3, etc.; “τ. ἄνεμος” which will blow in three days, Pi.N.7.17; “τριταίαν καρύσσουσιν θυσίαν” E.El.171 (lyr.); τ. ἐκφορά a funeral three days after death, Pl.Lg.959a; “ἐσβεβληκὼς . . τ. ἐς Μηλιέας” three days before, Hdt.7.196, cf. Plb.15.33.11.
II. three days old, “ἰχθύδια τ.” Ar.Fr.387.9; “ᾠὰ τ. ὄντα” Arist.PA665a35; “φίλος τ.” of three days' standing, Theoc.29.18; ἐπεὰν τ. γένωνται after being three days dead, Hdt.2.89.
2. τριταῖος (sc. πυρετός), ὁ, tertian fever or ague, Hp.Aph.3.21, Nat.Hom.15, Pl.Ti.86a; “ὁ ἀκριβὴς τ.” Gal.18(2).246; “οἱ τ. πυρετοί” Id.15.755; “τ. ῥῖγος” POxy.1151.37 (v A. D.).
III. of days, third, τ. φέγγος, ἡμέρα, E.Hec.32, Hipp.275; “ἐς τὴν τριταίην” Hp.Coac.225.
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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