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 TRIBOLA. they were Germans, liis narrative shows that he considered them to be Germans. In another passage {B. G. iv. 10) Caesar places the Triboci on the Kbine between the Jlediomatrici and the Treviri, and he means to pihice them on the left or Gallic side of the Kbine. Strabo (iv. p. 193), after nientioninr; the Sequani and Jledioniatrici as extending to the Ikliine, says, " Among them a German people has settled, the Trihocchi, who have passed over from tbeir native land." VWm also (iv. 17) and Tacitus {(terman. c.28) say that the Tribocci are Germans. The true conclusion from Caesar is that he sup- posed the Tribocci to be settled in Gallia before 15. 0. 58. I'tuleniy (ii. 9. § 17) places the Tribocci in Upper ("iermania, but he incorrectly jilaces the Vangiones between the Nemetes and the Tribocci, for the Ne- metes bordered on the Tribocci. However he places the Tribocci next to the Rauraci, and he names Breucoinagus (Bi'ocomagus) and Eleebus(Helcebus) .•IS the two towns ot the Tribocci. D'Aiiville suppo.ses that the territory of the Tribocci corresponded to the diocese oi' Strasshurj. Saletio {Seltz or Sets), we may suppose, belonged to the Nemetes, as in modern times it belonged to the diocese of Speier; and it is near the northern limits of the dwcanQ oi Strasshurg . On the south towards the Rauraci, a place named ^tdr/celnkeim, on the southern limit of the diocese of S/rnssburg and bordering on that of Basle, indicates a bouneiary by a Teutonic name (mark), as Fines .l(ies in those parts of Gallia where the Roman tongue ]irevailed. The name of the Tribocci does not appear in the Kotit. Provinc, though the names of the Xemetes and Vangiones are there; but instead of the Tribocci we have Civitas Argentoratum (Slrass- liiirg), the chief place of the Tribocci. Ptolemy makes Argentoratum a city of the Vangiones. [G.L.] TRI'BOLA (TpiS6ka, App. JJisp. 62, 63), a town of Lusitania, in the mountainous regions S. of the Tagus, probably the modem Trevoens. [T. H.D.J TRIBULIUM. [Trilueium]. TRIBUNCI, a place in Gallia, which we may assume to have been near Concordia, for Ammianus (xvi. 12), after speaking of the battle near Strass- hurg, in which Chnodomarius, king of the Alemanni, was defeated by Julian, says that the king hurried to his camp, which was near Concordia and Tribunci. But neither the site of Concordia nor of Tribunci is certain. [Concokdia.] [G. L.] TRICAPtA'NUM. [Piilius, p. 602, a.] TKICASSES, a people of Gallia Lugdunensis. (Plin. iv. 18.) In Ptolemy (ii. 8. § 13) the name is Tricasii (Tpijcdcrfoi), and their city is Augustobona (hvyouaroSova). They border on the Parish. The name appears in the form Tricassiui in Ammianus (xvi. 1) and in an inscription. In the Notit. Provinc. the name Civitas Tricassium occurs; and the name of the people has been transferred to the town, which is now Troyes on the Seine, the chief town of the French department of Aide. Caesar does not men- tion the Tricasses, and his silence has led to the conjecture that in his time they were comprised within the powerful state of the Senones. [G. L.] TRICASTPNI (TfiiKaarivo'i), a Gallic people between the Rhone and the Alps. Livy (v. 34) describing the march of Bellovesus and his Galli into Italy, says they came to the Tricastini: " The Aljis next were opposed to them;" from which it is inferred that the Tricastini were near the Alps. But nothing exact can be inferred from the narrative, nor from the rest of this confused tlia))ter. In the TRICCA. 1229 description of Ilamiibars march (Liv. xxi. 34) it is said that Hannibal, after settling the disputes of the Allobroges, being now on his road to the Alj.s, did not; make his march straight forward, but turned to the left into the territory of the Tricastini ; and from the country of the Tricastini he went through the uttermost part of the territory of the Vocontii into the country of the Tricorii, and finally reached the. Druentia (Durance.) It would be out (jf place to examine this question fully, for it would require some pages to discuss the passages in Livy. He means, however, to place the Tricastini somewhere between the Allobroges and part of the border of the Vocontiaii territory. The capital of the Vocontii is Dea Vocontiorum, or Bie in the department of Drome ; and the conclusion is that the Trica.slini were somewhere between the Isara (hire) and the Druna (Drome). This agrees with the position of Augusta Tricastinoram [Augusta Tkicastino- KUJi] as detennined by the Itins. Ptolemy (ii. 10. § 13) places the Tricastini east of the Segallauni, whose cajiital is Valentia, and he names as the capital of the Tricastini a town Noeomagus, which appears to be a dilierent jjlace from Augusta Tricastinorum. D'Anville places the Tricastini along the east bank of the Rhone, north of Arausio (Orange), a position which he fixes by his determination of Augusta Tricastinorum: and he adds, " that the name of the Tricastini has been preserved pure in that of Tricastin." But the Tricastini of Livy and Ptolemy are certainly not where D'Anville places them. [G. L.] TRICCA (Tp'tKKri : Eth. TpuiKcuoi : Trikkala), an ancient city of Thessaly in the district Histiaeolis, stood upon the left bank of the Peneius, and near a small stream named Lethaeus. (Strab. ix. p. 438, xiv. p. 647.) This city is said to have derived its name from Tricca, a daughter of Peneius. (Steiili. B. s. V.) It is mentioned in Homer as subject to Podaleirius and Machaon, the two sons of Asclepius or Aesculapius, who led the Triccaeans to the Trojan War (Horn. 11. ii. 729, iv. 202); and it jiossessed a temple of Asclepius, which was regarded as the most ancient and illustrious of all the temples of this god. (Strab. ix. p. 437.) This temple was visited by the sick, whose cures were recorded tiiere, as in the temples of Asclepius at Epidaurus and Cos. (Strab. viii. p. 374.) There were jirobably physicians at- tached to the temjile ; and Leake gives an inscription in four elegiac verses, to the memory of a " god-like physician named Ciinber, by his wife Andromache," which he found upon a marble in a bridge over the ancient Lethaeus. (Northern Greece, vol. iv. p. 28.'5.J In the edict published by Polysperchun and the other generals of Alexander, after the death of the latter, allowing the exiles from the (iillerent Greek cities to return to their homes, those of Tricca and of the neighbouring town of Piiarcadun were excepted for some reason, which is not recorded. (Diod. xviii. .56.) Tricca waa the first town in Thessaly r.t which Philip V. arrived after liiti  642) ill the sixth century, and the loriii in .Iiis- tiniiin may be a corrujitioii. In the twelfth century it already bears its modern name (T/i(/f»faAo, Anna Comii. V. p. 137, cd. Paris.; Kustalh. (ul II. ii. p.