Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Tridens

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

TRID'ENS (τριόδους, τρίαινα). Literally, furnished with three teeth, i. e. prongs; whence applied absolutely in the same sense as fuscina; a three-pronged fork for spearing fish (Plin. H. N. ix. 20. Wood-cut s. FUSCINA, 1.); a similar weapon used by the gladiators called retiarii or netmen (Juv. viii. 203. wood-cut s. FUSCINA, 2.); the trident of Neptune, appropriately attributed (Tridens/1.1) by poets and artists to the sea-god in lieu of a sceptre. Virg. Georg. i. 13. Id. Aen. ii. 610.

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