Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), T, Trapezūs, Tridens

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A three-pronged fork for spearing fish.

A sort of pitchfork used by the class of gladiators called retiarii. (See Gladiatores.)

The characteristic sign of Neptune, which in works of art he is depicted as carrying instead of a sceptre (Verg. Aen. ii. 610).

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)