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 1232 TRIPOLIS. ated at the foot of Mount Geraneia, at a spot con- venient for the junction of troops marching from riataea in the one direction, and from the Isthmus in the other. Pausanias (?. c.) also describes it as lyinc; at the foot of Geraneia on the road from ])e]phi to Argos. This author relates that it de- rived its name from a tripod, which Coroebus the Argive brought from Delphi, with the injunction that wherever the tripod fell to the ground he was to reside there and build a temple to Apollo. (Conip. Conon, Karrat. 19.) Leake noticed the vestiges of an ancient town at the foot of Mt. Gera- neia,"on the road from Phitaea to the Isthmus, four or five miles to the NW. of Megara. (Leake, Nortli- eifi Greece, vol. ii. p. 410.) TRI'POLIS (TpiTToAis, Ptol. v. 15. § 4: FAh. Tpim)'m)s: Adj. Tripoliticus, Plin. xiv. 7. s. 9), an important maritime town of Phoenicia, situated on the N. side of the promontory of Theuprosopon. (Strab. xvi. p. 754.) The site of Tripolis has been already described, and it has been mentioned that it derived its name, which literally signifies the three cities, from its being the metropohs of the three confederate towns. Tyre, Sidon, and Aradus [Phoe- nicia, Vol. II. p. 606]. Each of those cities had here its peculiar quarter, separated from the rest by a wall. Tripolis po.ssessed a good harbour, and, like the rest of the Phoenician town.s, had a large mari- time commerce. (Cf. Joannes Phocas, c. 4; Wesse- ling, ad Jtin. Ant. p. 149.) Respecting the modern Tripoli {Tarablus or Tripoli di Soria); see Po- cocke, vol. ii. p. 146, seq.; Maundrell, p. 26; Burck- harJt, p. 163, seq.,&c.; cf. Soy lax, p. 42; Mela, i. 12 ; Plin. v. 20. s. 17 ; Diod. xvi. 41 ; Steph. Ii. s. v.; Eckhel, vol. iii. p. 372.) [T. II. 1).] COINS OF TRIPOLIS IN PHOENICIA. TRI'POLIS (TpiVoAis: Eth.TpnroKW-ns). 1. A town of Phrygia, on the northern bank of the upper course of the Jklaeander, and on the road leading from Sardes by Philadelphia to Laodiceia. (^It. Ant. p. 336; Tab.' Peut.) It was situated 12 miles to the north-west of Hierapolis, and is not men- tioned by any writer before the time of Pliny (v. 30), who treats it as a Lydiau town, and says that it was washed by the Maeander. Ptolemy (v. 2. § 18) and Stejihanus B. describe it as a Carian town, and the latter {s.v.) adds that in his time it was called Neapolis. Hierocles (p. 669) likewise calls it a Lydian town. Ruins of it still exi.st near Yeniji or TRITIUM TUBORICUM. Kash Yeniji. ( Arundell, Seven Clmrches, p. 245 ; Hamilton, Researches, i. p. 525; Fellows, Asia Minor, p. 287.) 2. A fortiess in Pontus Polemoniacus, on a river of the same name, and with a tolerably good har- bour. It was situated at a distance of 90 stadia from Cape Zephyrium. (Arrian, Peripl. P. E. p. 17 ; Anon. Peripl. P.E. p. 13; Plin. vi. 4.) The place still exists under the name of Tireboli, and is situated on a rocky headland. (Hamilton, lie- searches, 1. p. 257.) [L. S.] TRI'POLIS (TpiTToXis). 1. A district in Arca- dia. [Vol. I. p. 193, No. 12.] 2. A district in Laconia. [Vol. II. p. 113, b.] 3. A district of Perrhaebia in Thessaly, containing the towns Azorus, Pythium, .and Doliche. (Liv. xlii. 53.) [AzoKus.] TRIPOLITA'NA REGIO. [Syp.tica.] TRIPO'NTIUM, a towm of Britannia Romana, apparently in the territory of the Coritani. (///». Ant. p. 477.) Variously identified with Lilhonrn, Calthurpe, and Rwjbij. ' [T. H. D.] TRIPY'RGIA. [Aegixa, p. 34, b., p. 35, a.J TRLSANTON {TiiiadvTwv, Ptol. ii. 3. § 4), a river on the S. coast of Britannia Romana; according to Camden (p. 137) the river Test, which runs into Southampton Wati^r ; according toothers the river Arim. [T. H. D.] TRISCIANA (TpiffKiava, Procop. de Aed. iv. 4, p. 282), a place in Jloesia Superior, perhaps the present Firistina or Pristina. [T. H. D.] TRISSUM (TpKrauy, Ptol. iii. 7. § 2), a place in the country of the Jazvges Metanastae. [Cf. Jazy- GES, Vol II. p. 7.] ' [T. H. D.] TRITAEA. 1. (Tpnala : Eth. Tpiraievs ■ in Herod, i. 145, Tpiraifts is the name of the peojile), a town in Aehaia, and the most inland of the 12 Achaean cities, was distant 120 stadia from Pliarae. It was one of the four cities, which took the lead in re- viving the Achaean League in is.c. 280. In the Social War (u. c. 220, seq.) it sulfered from the attacks of the Aetolians and Eleians. Its territory was annexed to Patrae by Augustus, when he made the latter city a colony after the battle of Actium. Its site is probably represented by the remains at Kastritzu, on the Selinus, near the frontiers of Arcadia. (He- rod, i. 145 ; Pol. ii. 41, iv. 6, 59, 60; Strab. viii. j*. 386; Paus. vii. 22. § 6. seq.; Steph. B. s. v.; Leake, Murea, vol. ii. p. 1 1 7.) 2. (Tritea, Plin. iv. 3. s. 4 : Eth. Tpnhs, Herod, viii. 33), one of the towns of Phocis, burnt )y Xerxe.-^, of which the position is uncertam. (Leake, Nor- thern (Greece, vol. ii. p. 89.) 3. (Tpinia, Steph. B. s. V. : Eth. Tpnattes, Thuc. iii. 101), a town of the Locri Ozolae, described by Stephanus B. as lying between Phocis and the Locri Ozolae. Hence it is placed by Leake not far from Delphi and Amphissa, on the edge, perhaps, of the plain of Sdlona. (Leake, Northern Greece, vol. ii. p. 621.) TRI'TIUM, a town of the Autrigones, in Hispania Tarraconensis, in the jurisdiction of Clunia. (Plin. iii. 3. s. 4; 7<m. A7it. pp. 450,454.) Variously identified with Carceda, Rodilla, and a place near Monasterio. [T.H. D.] TRI'TIUM METALLUJI (Jpirtov MctoAAoc, Ptol. ii. 6. § 55), a town of the Berones, in His- pania Tanaconensis, now called Tricio, near Nnjera. (Florez, Cantahr. p. 182.) [T. H. D.] TRI'TIUM TUBO'RICUJI {Toinov ToxjS6piKov, Ptol. ii. C. § 06), a town of the Barduli, in Hispa-