best houses and chief public buildings stand on hilly terraces. The city contains the maharaja’s college, a Sanskrit college, a high school, a school for girls, an industrial school of arts, and a hospital and medical school. There is little trade, but a speciality of wood-carving. Trivandrum has a small seaport, but the vessels that touch here have to anchor at some considerable distance from the shore, and the port itself is not fitted for any great commercial development.
TRIVET, a small metal tripod for holding cooking vessels
near a fire. The word is also applied to a round, square or oval
openwork plate, usually of steel or brass, fixed to the bars of a
grate by a socket for keeping hot plates, dishes, or food.
TRIVIUM (Lat. for cross-road, i.e. where three roads meet,
from tres, three, and via, road), in medieval educational systems, the curriculum which included grammar, rhetoric and logic.
The trivium and the quadrivium (arithmetic, music, geometry
and astronomy) together made up what are known as the
seven liberal arts (see Education: Schools). From the word in its original sense is derived the adjective “trivial” (post-Aug. Lat. trivialis), that which can be seen at the cross-roads, i.e. unimportant, commonplace. In botany and zoology the “trivial” name is the adjectival name which follows the genus name in a binominal system of nomenclature, as canina, perennis, in Rosa canina, Bellis perennis.
TRNOVO, or Tirnovo, an episcopal city and the capital of a
department of Bulgaria; 124 m. E.N.E. of Sofia., on the river
Yantra, and on the Sofia-Varna railway, at the junction of the
branch line from Rustchuk. Pop. (1906), 12,171. The city
consists of two divisions—the Christian quarter, situated
chiefly on a high rocky plateau, and the so-called Turkish
quarter, on the lower ground; but many of the Turkish inhabitants
emigrated after 1878. On the Tsarevetz Hill above the
city are the remains of the ancient citadel. The Husarjaini
mosque is used as a military powder and dynamite factory. In
the Christian quarter there are some interesting churches of
the middle ages, notably that of the Forty Martyrs, in which
the Bulgarian tsars were crowned. Numerous antiquarian
remains have also been discovered. There are a gymnasium
and a high-class girls’ school. The city possesses large dye-works,
and important manufactures of copper utensils.
Trnovo was the ancient capital of Bulgaria, and from 1186 until its capture by the Turks, 17th of July 1394, the residence of the Bulgarian tsars. From the beginning of the 13th century it was also the seat of the patriarchate of Bulgaria, until the suppression of the patriarchate in 1767. In 1877 it was taken from Turkey by the Russians, and in 1879 Prince Alexander of Battenberg was here elected prince of Bulgaria. On the 5th of October 1908 the independence of Bulgaria was proclaimed here by King Ferdinand, in the church of the Forty Martyrs.
TROCHAIC (from Gr. τροχαῖος, τροχαϊκός, from Lat. trochaeus), the name of a metre very commonly used by the Greeks
and Romans in their tragedies and comedies. Its characteristic
foot is a trochee consisting of two syllables, one long,
one short (– ◡). The usual form, in which the Greeks employed
the measure, was the trochaic tetrameter catalectic, the scheme
of which is as follows:—
| –◡ | –◡ | –◡ | –◡ | –◡ | –◡ | –◡ | ◡̱ | ||
| ◡◡◡ | ◡◡◡ | ◡◡◡ | ◡◡◡ | ◡◡◡ | ◡◡◡ | ◡◡◡ | |||
| – – | – – | – – | ◡◡– | ||||||
| ◡◡– | ◡◡– | ||||||||
| –◡◡ | –◡◡ | –◡◡ | –◡◡ | –◡◡ | –◡◡ | –◡◡ |
The trochaic metre is rapid in movement and breathless, and is generally used to depict strong emotions or to tell an exciting narrative. It is, however, very closely related to the ordinary iambic metre; in fact, by subtracting the first foot and a half of the longer line, we find ourselves left with a pure iambic line as used by the tragedians.
In modern times, the trochaic measure has been adopted by the prosody of England, Germany and Scandinavia. The swift and hurrying movement of it, which we see reflected in its derivation, as the Greek name is certainly to be traced back to the verb τρέχειν, to run, has made it a favourite with om lyrical poets. In the early English writers on versification the foot is called a trocheus.
TROCHU, LOUIS JULES (1815–1896), French general, was
born at Palais (Belle-Île-en-Mer) on the 12th of March 1815.
Educated at St Cyr he received a commission in the Staff Corps
in 1837, was promoted lieutenant in 1840, and captain in 1843.
He served as a captain in Algeria under Marshal Bugeaud, who,
in recognition of his gallantry in the battles of Sidi Yussuf
and Isly, made him his aide-de-camp and entrusted him with
important commissions. He was promoted major in 1845, and
colonel in 1853. He served with distinction throughout the
Crimean campaign, first as aide-de-camp to Marshal St Arnaud,
and then as general of brigade, and was made a commander of
the Legion of Honour and general of division. He again
distinguished himself in command of a division in the Italian
campaign of 1859, where he won the grand cross of the Legion of
Honour. In 1866 he was employed at the ministry of war
in the preparation of army reorganization schemes, and he
published anonymously in the following year L’Armée française
en 1867, a work inspired with Orleanist sentiment, which ran
through ten editions in a few months and reached a twentieth
in 1870. This brochure brought him into bad odour at court, and
he left the war office on half-pay, and was refused a command
in the field at the outbreak of the Franco-German War. After
the earlier disasters in 1870, he was appointed by the emperor
first commandant of the troops of Châlons camp, and soon
afterwards (Aug. 17) governor of Paris and commander-in-chief
of all the forces destined for the defence of the capital,
including some 120,000 regular troops, 80,000 mobiles, and
330,000 National Guards. He worked energetically to put
Paris in a state of defence and throughout the siege showed
himself a master of the passive defensive. At the revolution
of the 4th of September he became president of the government
of national defence, in addition to his other offices. His
“plan” for defending the city raised expectations doomed to
disappointment; the successive sorties made under pressure of
public opinion were unsuccessful, and having declared in one
of his proclamations that the governor of Paris would never
capitulate, when capitulation became inevitable he resigned
the governorship of Paris on the 22nd of January 1871 to General
Vinoy, retaining the presidency of the government until after
the armistice in February. He was elected to the National
Assembly by eight departments, and sat for Morbihan. In
October he was elected president of the council general for
Morbihan. In July 1872 he retired from political life, and in
1873 from the army. He published in 1873 Pour la vérité et
pour la justice, in justification of the government of national
defence, and in 1879 L’Armée française en 1879, par un officier
en retraite, a sort of supplement to his former work of 1867. He
died at Tours on the 7th of October 1896.
TROGEN, a neat and clean little town in the Ausser Rhoden
half of the Swiss canton of Appenzell. By light railway it
is 6 m. from St Gall, or by carriage road 7 m. from Heiden (the
chief goats’ whey cure resort in the canton), or 9 m. from Altstatten
in the Rhine valley. It is built on the side of a steepish
hill, and in 1900 had 2496 inhabitants, mostly Protestant and
German-speaking. In the square before the parish church the
Landsgemeinde or primitive democratic assembly of Ausser
Rhoden meets in the even years (in other years at Hundwil,
not far from Herisau) on the last Sunday in April. Like other
towns in Appenzell, Trogen is engaged in the manufacture (in
the houses of the workpeople) of embroidery and muslins.
TROGLODYTES (τρωγλοδύται, from τρώγλη, hole, δύω, creep),
“cave-dwellers,” a name applied by ancient writers to different
tribes in various parts of the world. Strabo speaks of them
in Moesia, south of the Danube (vii. 318), in the Caucasus
(xi. 506), but especially in various parts of Africa from Libya
(xvii. 828) to the Red Sea. The troglodyte Ethiopians of
Herodotus (iv. 183) in inner Africa, very swift of foot, living on
lizards and creeping things, and with a speech like the screech
of an owl, have been identified with the Tibbus of Fezzan.
