Chapter Triple Alliance to Triumvirate of T by Brewer's Readers Handbook

The second part of the History of Prince Arthur, compiled by sir T. Malory, is almost exclusively confined to the adventures of sir Tristram, as the third part is to the adventures of sir Launcelot and the quest of the holy graal (1470).

(Matthew Arnold has a poem entitled Tristram; and R. Wagner, in 1865, produced his opera of Tristan and Isolde.)

See Michel, Tristan; Recueil de ce qui reste des Poèmes relatifs à ses Aventures (1835).

Tristram Shandy. (See Shandy, p. 993.)

Tristrem l’Hermite, provost-marshal of France in the reign of Louis XI. Introduced by sir W. Scott in Quentin Durward (1823) and in Anne of Geierstein (1829).

Tritheim (J.), chronicler and theologian of Treves, elected abbot of Spanheim at the age of 22 years. He tried to reform the monks, but produced a revolt, and resigned his office. He was then appointed abbot of Würzburg (1462–1516).

Old Tritheim, busied with his class the while.
   —R. Browning: Paracelsus, i. (1836).

Triton, the sea-trumpeter. He blows through a shell to rouse or allay the sea. A post-Hesiodic fable.

Have sight of Proteus coming from the sea,
Or hear old Triton blow his wreathêd horn.
   —Wordsworth

Tritonia’s Sacred Fane, the temple of Minerva, which once crowned “the marble steep of Sunium” or Colonna, the most southern point of Attica.

There [on cape Colonna], reared by fair devotion to sustain
In elder times Tritonia’s sacred fane.
   —Falconer: The Shipwreck, iii. 5 (1762).

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.