Anc. Gr. Hist. [ad. Gr. τριᾱκάς, -αδ-, the number thirty (also as below): cf. TRIACONTAD.] ‘At Athens, a political division of the φυλή containing thirty families; at Sparta, either 30 families (1/10 of an oba), or 10 families (1/30 of an oba)’ (Liddell and Scott). Cf. OBE.
1846. Grote, Greece, II. viii. II. 602. Herodotus tells us that Lycurgus established the military subdivisions peculiar to Sparta—the Enômoties, the Triākads, and the Syssitia.
1868. Smith, Smaller Dict. Grk. & Rom. Antiq. (ed. 7), 389/1.
