τρίοδος [ῐ], ἡ,
={τριοδία}, a meeting of three roads, [[ 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 911, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 11.38 ] Refs 6th c.BC+] (where the plural [conjecture] is used for the singular,[[compare 2nd c.BC: Moschus Bucolicus 1.2, “epigram Gr.” 841 (from Thrace), “IG” 3.1418.2); τροχήλατος σχιστῆς κελεύθου τρίοδος 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Fragmenta - American Journal of Philology” 173, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 1212, 5th c.BC: Pherecrates Comicus 130.3 (_anapaest meter_, _plural_), 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Fragmenta” 204 (_plural_), 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 524a, etc. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 [Ἑκάτη] ναίουσ᾽ ἱερὰς τ. [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 535 (_anapaest meter_); ἁ θεὸς ἐν τριόδοισι 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 2.36 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; the τρίοδοι were frequented by fortune-tellers and loungers, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Characteres” 16.5, 14, 2nd c.AD: Aristides Rhetor “Orationes” 22 (19). 10; φαρμακοπώλης ἐκτριόδου 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 9.823; ἐκτῆς τ. ἰατροί [prev. author] 10.786: hence οἷα ἐκ τριόδου] Refs 4th c.BC+], i. e. vulgar, [[ 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Hist.Conscr.” 16, etc.; λοιδορίαι ἐξ ἐργαστηρίων καὶ τριόδων 2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 46.4 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; of certain women, τρίοδοί τινες.. ἐγένοντο [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Clearchus Historicus 25 (τριοδίτιδες conjecture Lobeck). ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__3 proverbial also of persons in doubt, ἐν τριόδῳ δ᾽ ἕστηκα Thgn.[same place]; στὰς.., καθάπερ ἐν τ. γενόμενος [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 799c; ἐν τ. εἰμί 2nd c.AD: Zenobius Paroemiographus 3.78, etc. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]