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triceps

triceps · adj

having three heads

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Where it lives

Oedipus 1 · 1.69/10k
Orator 1 · 0.54/10k
Tusculanae Disputationes 1 · 0.18/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

trīceps — Lewis & Short

trīceps, cĭpĭtis, adj.tres-caput; cf. Cic. Or. 48, 159.

I Lit., having three heads, triple-headed: Cerberus, Cic. Tusc. 1, 5, 10: Hecate (because she was also at the same time Luna and Diana), Ov. M. 7, 194.—*

II Transf., threefold: historia, Varr. L. L. 5, § 148 Müll.

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