τρίτος [ῐ],
Aeolic dialect τέρτος (see. τέρτα) η, ον, (τρεῖς) third, τοῖσι δ᾽ ἐπὶ τρίτος ἦλθε [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 20.185, compare 14.471 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; τρίτος αὐτός himself the third, i. e. with two others (see. αὐτός [[ 1.6) τ. ἡμίδραχμον ] Refs]two drachmae and a half, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Dinarchus Orator _Attic dialect_ 8.4 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; compare ἡμιτάλαντο; τ. γενέσθαι to be third in a race, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 16.34, compare 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Alcibiades” 11 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—the third frequently appears as completing the tale, e.g. the third and last libation was offered to Ζεὺς Σωτήρ, Διὸς σωτηρίου σπονδὴ τρίτου κρατῆρος [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 425, compare 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Fragmenta - American Journal of Philology” 55; ἔγχει κἀπιβόα τρίτον παιῶν᾽, ὡς νόμος ἐστίν 5th c.BC: Pherecrates Comicus 131.5 (compare τριτόσπονδος)] Refs 5th c.BC+]: metaphorically, Κράτος τε καὶ Δίκη σὺν τῷ τρίτῳ.. Ζηνί [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 244, compare “Eu.” 759, “Supp.” 26 (_anapaest meter_)] Refs 4th c.BC+]; τρίτην ἐπενδίδωμι (i.e. πληγήν) the third and finishing stroke, [[ [prev. author] “Ag.” 1386 ] Refs]; Ἐρινὺς.. αἷμα πίεται, τρίτην πόσιν, i. e. the blood of Clytemnestra and Aegisthus, the first being that of the children of Thyestes, the second that of Agamemnon, [[ [prev. author] “Ch.” 578, compare 1066 (_anapaest meter_). ] Refs]
__II τρίτη, with or without ἡμέρα, the day after tomorrow, ἐς τρίτην ἡμέραν [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 612; εἰς τρίτην 4th c.BC: Anaxandrides Comicus 4; τῇ τρίτῃ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 3.1.17, etc.; τρίτῃ καὶ τετάρτῃ [prev. author] “An.” 4.8.21, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; but ἐχθὲς καὶ τ. ἡμέραν yesterday and the day before, [[ [prev. author] “Cyr.” 6.3.11:] Refs] — διὰ τρίτης two days later, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Fragmenta” 368 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; but, every other day, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἀγμῶν” 48, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 6.354. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]