=Triumvirate= (_The_), in English history: The duke of Marlborough, controlling foreign affairs, Lord Godolphin, controlling council and parliament, and the duchess of Marlborough, controlling the court and queen. =Triumvirate of England=, (_The_): Gower, Chaucer, and Lydgate, poets. =Triumvirate of Italian Poets= (_The_): Dantê, Boccaccio, and Petrarch. Boccaccio wrote poetry, without doubt, but is now chiefly known as “The Father of Italian Prose.” These three are more correctly called the “Trecentisti” (_q.v._). =Triv´ia=, Diana; so called because she had three faces, Luna in Heaven, Diana on earth, and Hecate in Hell. The noble Brutus went wise Trivia to inquire, To show them where the stock of ancient Troy to place. M. Drayton, _Polyolbion_, i. (1612). =Trog´lodytes= (3 _or_ 4 _syl._). According to Pliny (_Nat. Hist._, v. 8), the Troglodytes lived in caves under ground, and fed on serpents. In modern parlance, we call those who live so secluded as not to be informed of the current events of the day, _troglodytes_. Longfellow calls _ants_ by the same name. [_Thou the_] nomadic tribes of ants Dost persecute and overwhelm These hapless troglodytes of thy realm. Longfellow, _To a Child_. _Troglody´tes_ (4 _syl._), one of the mouse heroes in the battle of the frogs and mice. He slew Pelĭon, and was slain by Lymnoc´haris. The strong Lymnocharis, who viewed with ire A victor triumph, and a friend expire; With heaving arms, a rocky fragment caught, And fiercely flung where Troglodytês fought ... Full on his sinewy neck the fragment fell, And o’er his eyelids, clouds eternal dwell. Parnell, _Battle of the Frogs and Mice_ (about 1712). =Troil= (_Magnus_), the old udaller of Zetland. _Brenda Troil_, the udaller’s younger daughter. She marries Mordaunt Mertoun. _Minna Troil_, the udaller’s elder daughter. In love with the pirate.--Sir W. Scott, _The Pirate_ (time, William III.). (A udaller is one who holds his lands by allodial tenure.) =Tro´ilus= (3 _syl._), a son of Priam, king of Troy. In the picture described by Virgil (_Æneid_, i. 474-478), he is represented as having thrown down his arms and fleeing in his chariot, not equal to meeting Achilles; he is pierced with a lance, and, having fallen backwards, still holding the reins, the lance with which he is transfixed “scratches the sand over which it trails.”