In heaven above
The effulgent bands in triple circles move.
Tasso, Jerusalem Delivered, xi. 13 (1575).
The Cities of Refuge were three on each side the Jordan.
The Fates are three: Clotho (with her distaff, presides at birth), Lachĕsis (spins the thread of life), Atrŏpos (cuts the thread).
The Furies are three: Tisiponê, Alecto, Megæra.
The Graces are three: Euphros´ynê (cheerfulness of mind), Aglaia (mirth), Thalīa (good-tempered jest).
The Judges of Hades are three: Minos (the chief baron), Æacus (the judge of Europeans), Rhadamanthus (the judge of Asiatics and Africans).
The Muses are three times three.
Jupiter’s thunder is three-forked (trifĭdun); Neptune’s trident has three prongs; Pluto’s dog, Cerbĕrus, has three heads. The rivers of hell are three times three, and Styx flows round it thrice three times.