τριάς (trias)
Short definition (LSJ): τριάς, άδος, ἡ, (τρεῖς) the number three, triad, Ion
Full entry: Lexicon.
28 occurrences of this form in 9 works (dictionary form exactly as written, accents ignored, v/u and j/i as single letters; inflected forms not included).
Works using this form
- Metaphysics
- The Six Enneads: Enneads V-VI
- Phaedo
- On the Allegories of the Sacred Laws
- On the Creation of the World
- Antiquities of the Jews, Book 3
- On Rewards and Punishments
- On the Life of the Wise Man made perfect by Instruction; or, on the Unwritten Law, that is to say, on Abraham
- The Six Enneads: Enneads III-IV
Example passages
……τῷ μαθηματικῷ οὐδὲν διαφέρει οὐδεμία μονὰς ἑτέρα ἑτέρας)· ἢ τὰς μὲν συμβλητὰς τὰς δὲ μή (οἷον εἰ ἔστι μετὰ τὸ ἓν πρώτη ἡ δυάς, ἔπειτα ἡ τριὰς καὶ οὕτω δὴ ὁ…
……ἑκάστῃ οὐσίᾳ; οἷον ἄνθρωπος καὶ εἷς ἄνθρωπος καὶ ὂν καὶ ἓν ὂν καὶ τὰ πάντα ἕκαστα τὰ νοητὰ καὶ πᾶς ὁ ἀριθμός; ἀλλὰ πῶς δυὰς καὶ τριὰς καὶ πῶς τὰ πάντα καθ̓ ἓν καὶ ὁ τοιοῦτος ἀριθμὸς εἰς ἓν ἂν συνάγοιτο; οὕτω γὰρ ἔσται πλῆθος μὲν ἑνάδων, εἰς ἓν δὲ οὐδεὶς παρὰ τὸ ἁπλοῦν ἕν: εἰ μή τις λέγοι, ὡς δυὰς μέν ἐστιν ἐκεῖνο τὸ πρᾶγμα, μᾶλλον……
……μετὰ τοῦ ἑαυτοῦ ὀνόματος καὶ τοῦτο καλεῖν ἀεὶ διὰ τὸ οὕτω πεφυκέναι ὥστε τοῦ περιττοῦ μηδέποτε ἀπολείπεσθαι; λέγω δὲ αὐτὸ εἶναι οἷον καὶ ἡ τριὰς πέπονθε καὶ ἄλλα πολλά. σκόπει δὲ περὶ τῆς τριάδος. ἆρα οὐ δοκεῖ σοι τῷ τε αὑτῆς ὀνόματι ἀεὶ προσαγορευτέα εἶναι καὶ τῷ τοῦ περιττοῦ, ὄντος οὐχ ὅπερ τῆς τριάδος; ἀλλ’ ὅμως οὕτως πέφυκε καὶ ἡ τριὰς……