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                    "description": "(adjective) : trĭgĕmĭnus (collat. form, mostly poet., tergĕmĭnus), a, um,  tresgeminus\n* Three born at a birth: fratres, three twin-brothers.\n* Lit., Liv. 1, 24, 1; cf.: tergeminos nasci certum est Horatiorum Curiatiorumque exemplo,Plin. 7, 3, 3, § 33: trigeminorum matres,Col. 3, 8, 1: trigemini filii,Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 123. — As subst.: trĭgĕmĭni, three brothers born at a birth, Liv. 1, 25, 1; Col. 2, 1, 3; 7, 6, 7; cf.: trigemino partu,id. 3, 10, 17: Horatius trigemina spolia prae se gerens,of the three twin-brothers,Liv. 1, 26, 2: Trigemini,the title of a comedy of Plautus,Gell. 7, 9, 7.\n* Transf., in gen., threefold, triple, triform, = triplex (mostly poet.): trigeminae victoriae triplicem triumphum egistis,Liv. 6, 7, 4: tripectora tergemini vis Geryonai,Lucr. 5, 28; cf. of the same and of Cerberus: tergeminumque virum tergeminumque canem,Ov. Tr. 4, 7, 16; and of Cerberus: cui tres sunt linguae tergeminumque caput,Tib. 3, 4, 88: canis,Prop. 4 (5), 7, 52. tergemina Hecate (because she was also Luna and Diana; cf. triceps and triformis),Verg. A. 4, 511: tergemina dextra,i. e. of the three Graces,Stat. S. 3, 4, 83: jus tergeminae prolis. i. e. trium liberorum,id. ib. 4, 8, 21: pomorum tergemina natura,Plin. 15, 28, 34, § 114: verba illa Ciceronis in Pisonem (cap. 1) trigemina: decepit, fefellit, induxit,Gell. 13, 24, 22: certat tergeminis tollere honoribus, to the threefold honors, i. e. of the three highest magistracies, those of the curule aedile, the praetor, and the consul, Hor. C. 1, 1, 8: at tibi tergeminum mugiet ille sophos,thrice repeated,Mart. 3, 46, 8.\n* Porta Trigemina, a gate, in the early times of Rome, at the foot of Mount Aventine, Liv. 4, 16, 2; 35, 10, 12; Plaut. Capt. 1, 1, 22; Plin. 18, 3, 4, § 15; Front. Aquaed. 5 al.; cf. Becker, Antiq. 1, p. 157 sq."
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