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τρᾰγῳδός

tragodos

singer and dancer in the tragic choir, tragic actor

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1. τραγῳδός · tragōidos — Beekes

τραγῳδός [m.] ‘singer and dancer in the tragic choir, tragic actor’ (Att. Hell. and late), very rarely and mostly uncertain ‘poet of tragedies’; οἱ τραγῳδοί also ‘rendering of a tragedy’. 4 GR> *VAR Boeot. tpayarudog (Orchom. I’, archaizing). eDER 1. τραγῳδ-ἕω ‘to act as a τραγῳδός, treat in a tragedy, to display or relate with tragic pathos’, whence late -nua, -ητής, -ητός. 2. -ἰα [f] ‘tragedy’, also ‘elevated … — [Beekes, s.v. τραγῳδός, p. 1549]

2. τραγῳδός · tragōidos — Frisk

τραγῳδός (att. hell. u. sp.), böot. τραγαξυδος (Orchom. 15, archaisierend) m. “Sänger und Tänzer im tragischen Chor, tragischer Schanspieler’, ganz vereinzelt und meist unsicher “Tragödiendichter’ (für gew. τραγῳδ(ι)ο-ποιός, -διδάσκαλος; vgl. Fraenkel Nom. ag. 2,90), οἱ τραγῳδοί auch = "Auf. führung einer Tragödie’. — Davon I. τραγῳδ-έω "als τραγῳδὸς auftreten, in der Tragödie behandeln, mit tragischem Pathos … — [Frisk, s.v. τραγῳδός, p. 1888]

3. τρᾰγῳδός · tragōidos — LSJ

member of the tragic chorus

member of the tragic chorus, εἴ τις τ. φησιν ὀρχεῖσθαι καλῶς Ar. V. 1498, cf. 1505: usu. in pl., τῶν τ. τὸν χορόν Id. Pax 806 (lvr.); τοῖς χοροῖσι τῶν τ. Id. Av. 787 (troch.); τ. καὶ χοροί dub. l. in Th. 391 (v. τραγῳδικός) ; χορηγὸς τραγῳδῶν D. 21.59; τραγῳδοὺς καταλέγειν IG 1(2).187.9; τραγῳδῶν (sc. ἐνίκα χορὸς οὗ) Περικλῆς Χολαργεὺς ἐχορήγει ib. 2(2).2318.9; παλαιὸν δρᾶμα πρῶτον παρεδίδαξαν οἱ τ. ib. 203; Ἀριφράδης τοὺς τ. ἐκωμῴδει, ὅτι ἃ οὐδεὶς ἂν εἴποι ἐν τῇ διαλέκτῳ, τούτοις χρῶνται Arist.

2 tragedy, a performance of tragedy, tragic stage, tragedies, tragic performance

pl. also, = tragedy or a performance of tragedy, ἐν τοῖσι τ. on the tragic stage, Ar. Av. 512; τραγῳδοῖς Aeschin. 3.36; οὐδὲ . . ὑποκριταὶ κωμῳδοῖς τε καὶ τραγῳδοῖς οἱ αὐτοί Pl. R. 395a; τεθέασαι τραγῳδούς Men. Epit. 108; χορηγεῖν τραγῳδοῖς Is. 6.60; οἱ ἐν ἄστει τ. Aeschin. 3.41, cf. 154; καινοῖς τραγῳδοῖς at the performance of new tragedies, IG 2(2).956.34, 1028, Docum. ap. D. 18.54, cf. Aeschin. 3.34; θεωμένων καινοὺς τ. Ἀθηναίων Plu. Phoc. 19; νενικηκὼς τραγῳδοῖς And. 4.42, cf. Thphr. Char. 2

II performer (actor and singer) of tragedy

performer (actor and singer) of tragedy, ἡ τῶν τ. ἐν τῇ σκευῇ πρὸς ἀλλήλους ὁμιλία Arist. Oec. 1344a21; ὑπεκρίθησαν τ. μὲν Θεσσαλὸς κτλ. Chares 4 J., cf. Plu. Alex. fort. 2.334d; Νεοπτόλεμος ὁ τ. D.S. 16.92, cf. IG 2(2).1132.39 (Delph., iii B. C.); Αἰσώπῳ τῷ τ. Plu. Cic. 5; οἵδε ἐπεδείξαντο τῷ θεῷ . . · τραγῳδοί· Θεόδωρος Μεγαρεύς, Φιλοκλείδης Χαλκιδεύς IG ΙΙ(2).105.17 (Delos, iii B. C.); ὡς οἱ κακοὶ τ. μόνοι ᾆσαι οὐ δύνανται ἀλλὰ μετὰ πολλῶν Arr. Epict. 3.14.1; οἱ τ. χοροῦ δέονται φίλων συνᾳδόν

III tragic poet

tragic poet, Vit.Aeschyli p.123 Westermann, Sch. Ar. Ra. 86; this sense is doubtful in Crates Com. 24, Diph. 30.4, Timocl. 6.8, Pl. R. 395a, Arist. Po. 1458b32 (v. supr. I.1 fin., 2).

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  • Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. τρᾰγῳδός (scan p. 1549; entry #6129).
  • Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. τρᾰγῳδός (scan pp. 1888-1889; entry #5721).

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