TRIAD

(Yunanca köken — orijinale bakınız.) As to the mysterious triad of deities or daemons, who are supposed by some to have been the basis of the diemon-worship of the Greeks, according to a pa age in Proceus on the Timasus of Plato (see Bryant's Jlncient Mythology, vol. iii., p. 107), "they could," he says, in accordance with his singular theory, " be no other than the three sons of Noah, who were the Baalim of the Scriptures, and the Aaiuoves and AOuvurot of Greece*." Others have imagined that the Triad of Plato and his followers was connected with the Christian Trinity. What are called by Cymric antiquaries the Triads of the Welsh Bards are poetical histories, in which the facts recorded are thrown into a kind of triplets. Thus, to take the commencement of the first Triad as an example — "Three names have been given to the Isles of Britain since the beginning: Clas Merddin, Til Inys, and Inys Pridain." The Triads are supposed to be of no greater antiquity than the reign of Edward I., although they probably contain fragments of old history. (See Turner's Jlnglo-Sanms, vol. i.: "Britannia after the Romans.") Triad. In Music, a compound of three sounds, which, from the extraordinary property it has of being naturally divisible into two thirds, one major and the other minor, constituting a fifth in the whole, has received the name of the harmonic triad. Its name is founded on its being formed of a third and a fifth, which, with the ba or fundamental sound, make three different terms. "RIAL, in Common Law, is the examination and disposal of an i ue of fact, either in criminal or civil proceed ings. Trials are by certificate, by inspection, by the record, and per pais, or by a jury. The first three are of a peculiar character. Trial by certificate is where the evidence of the person certifying is the only proper test of the i ue; as, the customs of the city of London are to be tried by the 1265 [s. 1279]