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tragicus

tragicus · adj

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Where it lives

De Optimo Genere Oratorum 3 · 18.95/10k
De Arte Poetica liber 5 · 16.18/10k
Cupido cruciatur 1 · 13.57/10k
Ephemeris id est totius diei negotium 1 · 7.71/10k
Remedia Amoris 2 · 3.81/10k
Apocolocyntosis 1 · 3.69/10k
Epistulae 2 · 2.02/10k
De vita Hadriani 1 · 1.95/10k
Saturae 4 · 1.61/10k
Satyrarum libri 2 · 1.41/10k
In Eutropium 1 · 1.39/10k
Tristia 3 · 1.32/10k

Densest 12 of 50 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

trăgĭcus — Lewis & Short

trăgĭcus, a, um, adj., = tragiko/s,

I of or belonging to tragedy, tragic.

I Lit.

A Adj.: carmen, i. e. tragedy, Hor. A. P. 220: Camena, id. ib. 275: cothurni, id. S. 1, 5, 64: versus, id. A. P. 89: ars, id. Ep. 1, 3, 14: genus scaenarum, Vitr. 5, 8: actor, a tragic actor, tragedian, Liv. 24, 24, 2: Orestes aut Athamas, represented in tragedy, Cic. Pis. 20, 47; cf. cerva, i. e. in the tragedy of Iphigenia, Juv. 12, 120: tragicum illud subinde jactabat: oderint dum metuant, Suet. Calig. 30.—

B Subst.: trăgĭcus, i, m., a tragic poet, writer of tragedy, Cic. Opt. Gen. 1, 2; Quint. 8, 6, 26; 9, 3, 14; Petr. 132 med.—

2 A tragedian, tragic actor; plur., Plaut. Pers. 4, 2, 4.—

II Transf.

A In the tragic style, tragic, lofty, grand, sublime: fuit Sulpicius vel maxime omnium grandis et, ut ita dicam, tragicus orator, Cic. Brut. 55, 203: sed haec tragica atque divina, id. de Or. 2, 56, 227: color, Hor. A. P. 236: tumor, Gell. 2, 23, 21: ore, Mart. 8, 18, 8: nam spirat tragicum satis, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 166.—

B Of a tragic nature, tragic, horrible, fearful, terrible: res tragicas paene comice, tristes remisse tractavit, Cic. de Or. 3, 8, 30: tulit et Romana regia sceleris tragici exemplum, Liv. 1, 46, 3: concubitus, Juv. 2, 29: ignes (i. e. amores), Ov. Tr. 2, 407: Erinnyes, Prop. 2, 20 (3, 13), 29: asperitas, Val. Max. 5, 8, 1.—Adv.: trăgĭcē, in a tragic manner, tragically: mortem rhetorice et tragice ornare, Cic. Brut. 11, 43; Sen. Ep. 100, 10.

In the wild

tragico Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 27.11.2
tragico Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 20.1.2
tragici Livy, Ab urbe condita 1.1.46.3
tragicis Martial, Epigrammata 2.41.21
tragico Tacitus, Annales 15.p67
tragicos Claudian, In Eutropium 2.20.439

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