Brewer's: Trivia

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.

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