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TRIDENT (Lat. tridens, lri-, tres, three and dens, tooth)

This article appears in Volume V27, Page 268 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: TOO-TUM
TRIDENT (Lat. tridens, lri-, tres, three and dens, tooth) , a three-toothed or three-pronged
fork
  or spear. It is and has been from primitive times the typical
instrument
  for spearing
fish
 , the Scottish " leister " (Norw. ljoster), and was thus taken as the badge or emblem of the
Greek
  Poseidon, the god of the sea. In
Homer
  (cf. Il. xii. 27; Od. lv. 506 seq.) Poseidon is armed with the rpiaiva (another word is rpLMous, cf. Pind. 01. ix. 45). The
trident
  as the symbol of the
sovereignty
  of the sea is found as early as Archilochus (c. 700 B.C.); a more
familiar
  example is to be found in Aristophanes (Eq. 839). The emblematical figure of Britannia holds the
trident
  as mistress of the sea. In the gladiatorial shows of ancient Rome the retiarius was armed with a trident as a weapon.


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