In this paper we study the third-order abstract ordinary differential equations \(\begin{aligned} u_{ttt}+aA^{x}u_{tt}+bA^{y}u_t+c^2A^zu=0, \end{aligned}\) where \(a,b\geqslant 0\) , \(c\ne 0\) , \(0\leqslant x<y\leqslant z\leqslant 1\) , and \(A:D(A)\subset X \rightarrow X\) is an unbounded, closed, densely defined, self-adjoint linear operator, which is defined on a separable Hilbert space X. We characterized the spectrum of the linear operator associated to the equation and analyzed for which coefficients a, b, c and for which powers x, y, z, this system can generate a strongly continuous semigroup, or an analytic semigroup, or does not generate anything. Since the coefficients have an important role when it comes to differential equations of third-order, we appeal to a tool from Galois theory, namely the discriminant of a polynomial. Finally, we compute the probabilities, in some sense, of this equation having a solution (strongly continuous semigroup) and being regular (analytic semigroup).