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n. - A triangular lyre of ancient Greece and Rome; (astrology) one of four groups of the zodiac where each group consists of three signs separated from each other by 120 degrees; A three-sided polygon.

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  • One of the facts that plays a large part in the result was known to the old astrologers, viz. that Jupiter and Saturn come into conjunction with a certain triangular symmetry;...
  • Figure 74 is a trigon, the angles at its centre being 120, and the angle at the circumference being 60, as marked.
  • In short, whoever takes his ephemeris in one hand and history in the other, will have no difficulty in convincing himself of the efficacy of such configurations; and though, by...
  • On the first syllable of equas a tristopha takes the place of the trigon.
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