Also 6 tropheum, 7–9 trophæum, 9 tropæon. [L. tropæum, trophæum, ad. Gr. τρόπαιον trophy.] = TROPHY. (Now only Antiq., in lit. sense.)
1549. Compl. Scot., xvii. 149. This last tryumphe of laure tre vas callit tropheum, quhilk singnifeis ane ioyful victoree.
1570–6. Lambarde, Peramb. Kent (1826), 307. They … enacted in their Chapter house, that … Saint Cuthbertes feast (as a Tropheum of their victorie) shoulde be holden double, both in their Church and Kitchen.
1847. Leitch, trans. C. O. Müller’s Arc. Art, § 200 (1850), 189. Below, a tropæon is erected by Roman legionaries and auxiliaries.
1901. Athenæum, 5 Jan., 24/2. [The] massive foundations … are too deep and strong for anything but a very large tower or trophæum.
