The corpus record — Latin

trivius

an epithet of those deities whose temples were often erected where three ways met

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Where it lives

De Testimionio Animae 1 · 4.47/10k
De Arte Poetica liber 1 · 3.24/10k
Epigrammata Ausonii de diversis rebus 1 · 2.74/10k
Eclogues 1 · 2.2/10k
Epistulae 2 · 2.02/10k
Fabulae Aesopiae 2 · 1.82/10k
In Rufinum 1 · 1.75/10k
Elegiae 2 · 1.62/10k
Carmina 2 · 1.55/10k
Elegiae 3 · 1.19/10k
Pro L. Murena 1 · 0.95/10k
Octavius 1 · 0.86/10k

Densest 12 of 26 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

trĭvĭus — Lewis & Short

trĭvĭus, a, um (

I gen. fem. Triviaï, Lucr. 1, 84), adj. trivium, an epithet of those deities whose temples were often erected where three ways met: DI, Inscr. Grut. 84, 5; 1015, 1: virgo, i. e. Diana or Hecate, Lucr. 1, 84; also called: Trivia dea, Prop. 2, 32 (3, 30), 10.—More freq. absol.: Trĭ-vĭa, ae, f., Diana, Enn. ap. Varr. L. L. 7, § 16 Müll. (Trag. v. 318 Vahl.); Cat. 34, 15; 66, 5; Tib. 1, 5, 16; Verg. A. 6, 35; Ov. F. 1, 389; id. M. 2, 416 al.—Hence, Lăcus Trĭvĭae (the Lake of Diana), a lake in Latium, near Aricia, now Lago di Nemi, Verg. A. 7, 516; Stat. S. 3, 1, 56.

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