trivio
Dictionary entries
- Entry →trivius, trivia, trivium:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Lesser
of/belonging to crossroads temple, esp. sacred to Diana/Hecate;
abl. sg. (m.)abl. sg. (n.)dat. sg. (m.)dat. sg. (n.) - Entry →trivium, trivi(i):
Neuter · Noun · 2nd declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
place where three roads meet; "the gutter", breeding place of course manners;; trivium, first group of seven liberal arts (grammar/rhetoric/logic);
abl. sg.dat. sg.
Examples
SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...comederunt nervos tuos, aut quod purgamentum nocte calcasti trivio aut cadaver? Nec a puero quidem te vindicasti..."Divus Vespasianus
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius) from DE VITIS CAESARUM
"...gremium deventuram. Prandente eo quondam, canis extrarius e trivio manum humanam intulit mensaeque subiecit. Cenante rursus bos arator..."Liber I
Gaius Phaedrus from FABVLARVM AESOPIARVM LIBRI QVINQVE
"...canis, merito iaces,qui concupisti subito regales opes,trivio conceptus, educatus stercore'. XXVIII. Vulpes et Aquila Quamvis sublimes..."
