Triʹvia

Goddess of streets and ways. Gay has a poem in three books so entitled.

“Thou, Trivia, aid my song.

Through spacious streets conduct thy bard along …

To pave thy realm, and smooth the broken ways,

Earth from her womb a flinty tribute pays.”

Gay: Trivia, bk. i.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.