TRĬPOS

( τρίπους ), a tripod, i.e. any utensil or article of furniture supported upon three feet. More especially (1) A three-legged table.—(2) A pot or caldron, used for boiling meat, and either raised upon a three-legged stand of bronze, or made with its three feet in the same piece.—(3) A bronze altar, not differing probably in its original form from the tall tripod caldron already described. It was from a tripod that the Pythian prieste at Delphi gave responses. [ Cortina . ] The celebrity of this tripod produced innumerable imitations of it, which were made to be used in sacrifice, and still more frequently to be presented to the treasury both in that place and in many other Greek temples. IMG:6459379820872971714_ill394.jpg: Tripod of Apollo at Delphi. (Böttiger’s A mal the a, vol. i. p. 119.)