trĭvĭum, i, n. [ter-via]. I.Lit., a place where three roads meet, a fork in the roads, cross-road: ut ventum est in trivium, Cic. Div. 1, 54, 123.—II.Transf., in gen., a public square, the public street, highway; plur.: in triviis aut in compitis, Cic. Agr. 1, 3, 7: nocturnisque Hecate triviis ululata per urbes, Verg. A. 4, 609; Lucr. 4, 1203: occurram in triviis, Hor. S. 1, 9, 59; id. Ep. 1, 16, 64; 1, 17, 58; id. A. P. 245.— Sing.: pueros in trivio docere, Just. 21, 5; Tib. 1, 1, 12 (22).—Prov.: arripere maledictum ex trivio, i. e.
trĭvĭus, a, um (gen. fem. Triviaï, Lucr. 1, 84), adj. [trivium], an epithet of those deities whose temples were often erected where three ways met: DI, Inscr. Grut. 84, 5; 1015, 1: virgo, i. e. Diana or Hecate, Lucr. 1, 84; also called: Trivia dea, Prop. 2, 32 (3, 30), 10.—More freq. absol.: Trĭ-vĭa, ae, f., Diana, Enn. ap. Varr. L. L. 7, 16 Müll. (Trag. v. 318 Vahl.); Cat. 34, 15; 66, 5; Tib. 1, 5, 16; Verg. A. 6, 35; Ov. F. 1, 389; id. M. 2, 416 al.—Hence, Lăcus Trĭvĭae (the Lake of Diana), a lake in Latium, near Aricia, now Lago di Nemi, Verg. A. 7, 516; Stat. S. 3, 1, 56.