ῶν (οἱ) [ῐ]
      1 les Triballes, pple d’Illyrie, de mœurs sensuelles et grossières, THC. 2, 96 ; 4, 101 ; ISOCR. Or. 8, 50 Baiter-Sauppe ; ARSTT. Top. 2, 11, 6 ; PLUT. Alex. 11, etc. ; au sg. Τριϐαλλός, AR. Av. 1627, 1628, 1677, un Triballe ;
      2 p. ext. jeunes libertins, DÉM. 1269, 9.

(on the accent, v. Hdn. Gr. 1.158), οἱ, the Triballi, a people on the borders of Thrace (v. Hdt. 4.49); hence as a Comic name for barbarian gods, Ar. Av. 1529, 1533, 1627; οὔδ’ ἐν Τριβαλλοῖς ταῦτά γ’ ἐστὶν ἔννομα Alex. 241; καὶ ποὺ μὲν καλὸν τὸν πατέρα θύειν, οἷον ἐν T. Arist. Top. 115b23; — Adj. Τριβαλλικός, ή, όν, Hdt. 4.49. a slang term for young fellows who lounge about taverns, etc., like the ΄Mohocks’ of Addison΄s time, D. 54.39; — hence the Comic exaggeration Τριβαλλοποπανό-θρεπτα μειρακύλλια, tavern-bred Mohocks, Eub. 75.3 (Casaubon for Τριβαλλοπανό-θρεπτα ; Meineke suggests Τριβαλλομαμμό-θρεπτα, and Kock defends the Ms. reading).

Place, proper name

• Thracian tribe N of Macedonia, in modern Serbia, Bulgaria, Kosovo. (TOPOS text)