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acceiEon to the empire ; with this difference, that F. Pagi 

 takes it to be on the fifth of the calends of the month in 

 which the emperor was proclaimed ; and that this day was, 

 for this reafon, held facred among the Romans. 



F. Hardouin thinks, that on medals the tribunitian 

 power commences on the anniverfary of the building of 

 Rome, vix. the eleventh of the calends of May, excepting 

 on the Greek medals, where it begins in September, in re- 

 gard this month, which began the Greek year, was near the 

 time when the tribunitian power was firft conferred. 



Of all thefe fentiments, the moft probable is that of Onu- 

 phrius, &c. fetting afide the reftriftion of F. Pagi. See M. 

 Spanheim, Differt. xii. tom. ii. p. 429. 



TRIBUTA CoMiTiA. See Comitia. 



TRIBUTARY, Tributarius, one who pays tribute 

 to another, in order to live in peace with him, or to (hare in 

 his proteftion. 



The repubUc of Ragufa is tributary to the grand Turk ; 

 fo alfo is the cham of Little Tartary, &c. 



TRIBUTE, Tributiim, a tax, or impofl, which one 

 prince or ftate is obliged to pay to anotlier, as a token of de- 

 pendence ; or in virtue of a treaty, and as a purchafe of 

 peace. 



The Romans made all the nations they fubdued pay them 

 tribute. Mahomet laid it down as a fundamental of his 

 law, that all the world ftiould pay him tribute. 



In the ftates of the grand fignor, Chriftian children are 

 taken, by way of tribute, to make agemoglans, janizaries, 

 &c. 



Tribute is fometimes alfo ufed for a perfonal contribu- 

 tion, which princes levy on their fubjefts by way of capita- 

 tion, or poll-money. 



In this it differs from an impoft, which is properly what 

 is laid on merchandizes. 



TRICADIBA, in Jncient Geography, an ifle of India, 

 upon the coaft, on this fide of the Ganges, in paffmg from 

 the gulf of Canticolpe to the Colchic gulf, and to the S. of 

 the ifle of Heptanefia. Ptolemy. 



TRICiE, in Botany, fo called from Spif, Tftx"!, a hair, 

 becaufe they feem compofed of a horfe-hair rolled, or partly 

 folded, into a httle round black head, are the pecuhar fruc- 

 tification of the genus of Lichens named Gyropiiora. 

 See that article ; as well as Lichenes, their eighth kind of 

 receptacle. 



TRIG ALA, in Geography, a. town o{ European Turkey, 

 in Macedonia, on the Strimon ; 50 miles E.N.E. of Salo- 

 niki. — Alfo, a town of European Turkey, in Theffaly ; 

 21 miles S.W. of Lai'iffa. 



TRICALORE, a town of Hindooftan, in the Car- 

 natic ; 38 miles W. of Pondicherry. N. lat. 11° j8'. E. 

 long. 79° 21'. — Alfo, a town of Hindooftan, in the Car, 

 natic ; 17 miles S. of Tanjore. 



TRICARICO, a town of Naples, in Bafilicata, the 

 fee of a bifhop, fuffragan of Acerenza ; 13 miles S.E. of 

 Acerenza. N. lat. 40° 43'. E. long. 16° 8'. 



TRICARIUM, in -Botany, a genus of Loureiro's, the 

 name of which alludes to the three nuts of the fruit, being 

 derived from TpEi-, three, and Kxfur^:, a nut. — Loureir. Co- 

 chinch. 557. — Clafs and order, MonoeclaTetrandria. Nat. 

 Ord. Rhamni, or poiTibly Elitagni, of JulTieu ? 



Gen. Ch. Male, Col. Perianth of four ovate, flightly 

 fpreading, coloured leaves, converging at the points. Cor. 

 Petals none. Neftary of four ovate depreffed glands. Stam. 

 Filaments four, fhorter than the calyx ; anthers roundifti. 



Female, interfperfed with the male, Cal. Perianth inferior, 

 minute, in four deep ovate divifions. Cor. none. Pijl. 

 Germen fuperior, roundifli ; ftyle none ; ftigma laciniated. 



Per'tc. Drupa roundifli, flefliy, of three cells. Seeds. Nuts 

 folitary in each cell, roundifh, with three furrows-. 



Eff. Ch. Male, Calyx of four leaves. Petals none. Nec- 

 tary of four glands. 



Female, Calyx in four deep fegments. Corolla none. 

 Stigma laciniated. Drupa with three nuts. 



1. T. cochlnchinenfe. — Found in the woods of Cochin- 

 china, where it is knowm by the name of Cay Tram ung. A 

 tree of a middling ftature, with afcending branches. Leaves 

 alternate, fmall, ovate, entire, fmooth. Flotvers red, in 

 long, fimple, flender, aggregate, nearly terminal fpikes or 

 clufters. Drupa of a moderate fize, yellow, fmooth, eat- 

 able. — We cannot refer this plant to any defcribed genus, 

 nor are we certain whether it belongs to either of the above 

 natural orders, or to the Euphorbia, or perhaps the Terebin- 

 taceie, of Juflieu. Difficulties attend each fuppofition. 



TRICASSES, in Ancient Geography. See Trecasses. 



TRICASTINI, or Tricasteni, a people of GaUia 

 Narbonnenfis. Hannibal paffed through this country in his 

 way to the Alps. Mention is made of thefe people at the 

 time of the march of the Gauls into Italy, under the con- 

 duft of Bellovifcius ; and Pliny as well as Ptolemy take 

 notice of them, the former fpecifying Augufta as their ca- 

 pital. It is certain that they inhabited the left bank of the 

 Rhone, in a fmall country called Tricaftin. 



TRICCA, a town of Greece, in Theffaly, in the Eftieo- 

 tide territory. A modern place, named " Tricala," gives its 

 juft pofition, and anfwers to Strabo's account of the fitua. 

 tion of this town. Venus was worfliipped in this city, and 

 the inhabitants offered to her facrifices of fvsnne. 



TRICCIANA, a town of Pannonia, on the route from 

 Sirmium to Carnuntum, between Pons Manfuetianus and 

 Cimbriana:. Anton. Itin. 



TRICE, in Geography, one of the Nicobar iflands. 

 N. lat. 7° 30'. E. long. 94° 5'. 



TRICENNAL. See Trektal. 



TRICEPS, in Anatomy, a name given to a large mufcle 

 of the arm, and to one of the thigh, from the circumilance 

 of their arifing by three diftinft portions. 



Triceps adduHor cruris, (triceps ftmoris ; fous-pubo-, 

 fous-pubi-, and ifchii femoriens ; adduftor longus, adductor 

 brevis, and adduAor magnus ; long, ftiort, and great heads 

 of the triceps). This mufcle is placed at the upper and 

 inner part of the thigh, confiiling of three flattened por- 

 tions, diftinft from each other, making up the large mafs of 

 mufcle on the infide of the hmb, and extending from the 

 pelvis to the linea afpera of the thigh-bone. 



The long head of the triceps, adduftor longus or primus, 

 the firft in order of the three portions towards the front, 

 is elongated and flattened, narrow above, and confiderably 

 wider below, and extends from the front of the pubes to 

 the middle of the linea afpera. It arifes by a narrow but 

 ftrong tendon from the pubes, clofe to the fymphyfis ; the 

 mufcle defcends, pafling at the fame time obliquely out- 

 wards and backwards, and increafing greatly in breadth : it 

 terminates below in a broad and flat aponeurofis, fixed to the 

 middle of the linea afpera, in an extent of about tliree 

 inches. Some fibres join the tendon of the adduftor mag- 

 nus, while others unite with the vaftus externus. The fafcia 

 lata, the fartorius, and the crural artery, cover it in front : 

 it covers behind the two other adduftors. Its outer edge is 

 parallel to the inner margin of the peftinalis, and connedted 

 to it by a cellular line : its inner margin is much longer, and 

 covered, in nearly its whole extent, bv the gracilis. 



The ihort head, adduftor brevis or fecundus, is alfo of 

 a flattened figure, placed at the upper and mner part of the 

 thigh, and extending from the pubis to the upper part of the 



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