Τριτογένεια

Τρῑτο-γένεια, ἡ, (γίγνομαι)

• Trito-born, a name of Athena, Il. 4.515, 8.39, Od. 3.378, Hes. Th. 895, 924, IG 14.1389ii 1. (Variously expld. in antiquity, from the lake Τριτωνίς in Libya, from which an old legend represents the goddess to have been born, E. Ion 872 (anap.), cf. Hdt. 4.180; or from Triton, a torrent in Boeotia, Paus. 9.33.7, cf. Apollod. 1.3.6; or from a spring in Arcadia, Paus. 8.26.6; or from τριτώ, Aeol. word for κεφαλή (Sch. Ar. Nu. 985, Tz.ad Lyc. 519; Athamanian acc. to Nic. (Fr. 145) ap. Hsch.), i.e. head-born; or, born on the third day of the month, Ister 26 (the 23rd, τρίτῃ φθίνοντος, Sch.BT Il. 8.39); or, the third child after Apollo and Artemis, Suid. s.v. τριτογενής; or, as representing Nature, born thrice in the year, D.S. 1.12; or because she was author of the three main bonds of social life, Democr. 1b, 2.)
• • II the Pythagoreans gave the name Ἀθηνᾶ τ. to the equilateral triangle, Plu. Isid. 2.381e; cf. τρεῖς, τριάς.

Τριτογένεια

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Τριτογένεια : ‘Trito - born,’ Tritogenīa, epith. of Athēna, also alone as name, Il. 8.39, Il. 22.183, Il. 4.515, Od. 3.378. The significance of the first part of the word is unknown.

Τριτογένεια Τρῑτο-γένεια, ἡ, γίγνομαι

• Trito-born, a name of Athena, Hom., Hes., Hhymn., Orac. ap. Hdt. From the Lake Τριτωνίς in Libya, near which the goddess was born, Eur. Others interpret τριτογένεια born on the third day of the month, or the third child after Apollo and Artemis.