τρίπους

A. three-footed, of or with three feet: and so,

I. measuring three feet, τ. τὸ εὖρος Hdt. 3.60; τ. πλάτος IG 12.372.14, al.; ὅρους . . μὴ ἔλαττον ἢ τρίποδας ib.22.2492.24; τ. [γραμμή] Pl. Men. 83e; ἡ τ. [δύναμις] the side of a square three feet in area, Id. Tht. 147d.

II. going on three feet, prov. of an old man who leans on a staff, τρίποδι βροτῷ Hes. Op. 533 (but τρίποδι βροτοὶ ἶς οι is prob. cj.); τρίποδας ὁδοὺς στείχει A. Ag. 80 (anap.); cf. τριτοβάμων, and see the Sphinx's riddle in AP 14.64.

III. of tables, vessels, etc., three-legged, τ. λέβης A. Fr. 1; τράπεζα Ar. Fr. 530; ὑπόβασις Semus 15 :—but mostly

IV. as Subst., τρίπους,ὁ,

1. tripod, i.e. three-legged cauldron, Il. 18.344, Od. 8.434, etc.; τ. ἐμπυριβήτης Il. 23.702; ὑψίβατος τ. ἀμφίπυρος S. Aj. 1405 (anap.); ἄπυροι τ. tripods untouched by fire, i.e. new, unused, Il. 9.122, cf. Paus. 4.32.1; used as κρατῆρες, Semus l. c., Phylarch. 44J.; given as prizes, Il. 11.700, 23.264, al.; as gifts of honour, 8.290, Od. 13.13; in Crete used as currency, GDI 4969.130; placed as votive gifts in temples, esp. in that of Apollo at Delphi, Th. 1.132, SIG 697 L 3 (Delph., ii B. C.), etc.; ἡ τοῦ τ. ἀνάθεσις Lys. 21.2; these were then called τ. ἀναθηματικοί, Δελφικοί, Apollon. Lex.; a street at Athens adorned with these gifts was called οἱ Τρίποδες, Paus. 1.20.1; or they were preserved in private houses, Pi. I. 1.19; they were mostly of bronze, Paus. 4.12.8, but sts. of precious metals, even of gold, Pi. P. 11.4, Hdt. 9.81, Ar. Pl. 9, Paus. 10.13.9; sts. of wood, ξύλινοι τ. Id. 4.12.8; from a tripod the Delphic Priestess delivered her oracles, E. Ion 91 (anap.), Or. 164 (lyr.), Orac. ap. Ar. Eq. 1016, etc.: metaph., ὁπόταν ἐν τῷ τ. τῆς Μούσης καθίζηται [ὁ ποιητής] Pl. Lg. 719c: prov., ἐκ τρίποδος λέγειν, i. e. authoritatively, Ath. 2.37f; τὰ ἀπὸ τ., τὰ ἐκ τ., Zen. 6.3, Diogenian. 8.21, cf. Plu. Dem. 29.

b. Τρίπους, name of a work by Nausiphanes, D.L. 10.14; of a work by Glaucias the Empiric, Gal. Subf.Emp. p.63B.

2. as a landmark, SIG 826 E 13.23 (Delph., ii B. C.), 827 D 15 (ibid., ii A.D.).

3. three-legged table, X. An. 7.3.21, Plu. Cleom. 13; κύκλος τρίποδος the circular top of . . , Artem. 5.20, cf. 1.74.

4. a kind of ear-ring, Poll. 5.97.

5. a musical instrument, described by Artemoap.Ath. 14.637b. (The oldest nom. of stem τριποδ‐ is prob. τρίπος (q. v.), which comes from τριποδ‐ς but was later regarded as an o-stem.)