Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—T

Trivium

The three elementary subjects of literary education up to the twelfth century- Grammar, Rhetoric, and Logic. (See Quadrivium.)

N.B. Theology was introduced in the twelfth century.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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