The corpus record — Latin

tripus

tripus · m

a three-footed seat

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Where it lives

Pausanias 1 · 11.34/10k
Griphus Ternarii numeri 1 · 9.35/10k
Ludus Septem Sapientum 1 · 7.58/10k
Medea 2 · 3.53/10k
Panegyricus de sexto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.4/10k
Pharsalia 10 · 1.96/10k
Thebais 11 · 1.76/10k
In Rufinum 1 · 1.75/10k
Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 2 · 1.58/10k
Achilleis 1 · 1.39/10k
Apotheosis 1 · 1.35/10k
Fabulae Aesopiae 1 · 0.91/10k

Densest 12 of 25 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

trĭpūs — Lewis & Short

trĭpūs, pŏdis (m., = tri/pous,

abl. tripodi, Lucr. 1, 739),

I a three-footed seat, a tripod.

I In gen.: donarem tripodas, praemia fortium Graiorum, Hor. C. 4, 8, 3; Verg. A. 5, 110; Sid. Ep. 4, 24; Sulp. Sev. Dial. 2, 1. —

II In partic.

A Lit., the tripod of Pythia, the priestess of Apollo, at Delphi, Cic. N. D. 3, 16, 42; Verg. A. 3, 360; Ov. A. A. 3, 789; Luc. 5, 121; Sen. Med. 86.—

B Transf.

1 The oracle at Delphi: mittitur ad tripodas, Ov. F. 3, 855.—

2 An oracle, in gen.: salve, prisca fides tripodum, Stat. Th. 1, 509; Val. Fl. 1, 544; Sen. Med. 785.

In the wild

tripodum Statius, Thebais 3.506
tripode Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 3.11.3
tripodum Statius, Thebais 8.367
tripodas Lucan, Pharsalia 5.162
tripodas Lucan, Pharsalia 5.152
tripodas Ovid, Fasti 3.855

6 of 50 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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