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Headword:
Tragôidia
Adler number: tau,899
Translated headword: tragedy
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] exaggerated complaint.[1]
Aristophanes in
Wealth [writes]: "perhaps it is a Fury from a tragedy." For the ways of repelling phantoms fit tragic poets better, and in tragedies the Furies used to come on with torches.[2]
"But as to how things happened, it is the work of someone wishing to write a tragedy, not chronicling a history".[3] And elsewhere: "[she] suffering things worthy of a tragedy."[4]
Tragôidia: deinopatheia. Aristophanês Ploutôi: isôs Erinnus estin ek tragôidias. ta gar apotropaia tôn phantasmatôn tragôidois mallon harmottei, en de tais tragôidiais meta lampadôn eisêrchonto hai Erinnues. to de hopôs egenonto, tragôidian boulomenou graphein estin, ouch historian sungraphontos. kai authis: pathousa tragôidias axia.
Notes:
[1] Likewise in other lexica (references at
Photius tau413 Theodoridis), and cf. the
scholia to
Plato,
Republic 394C, where the headword occurs.
[2]
Aristophanes,
Wealth [
Plutus] 423 (see web address 1), with comment from the
scholia there. For the Furies see generally
epsilon 2994,
epsilon 2995.
[3] Evidently a quotation, and the note in Adler reasonably suggests
Polybius (known for his contempt of hellenistic "tragic history") as its author.
[4]
Aelian fr. 53i Domingo-Forasté, quoted more fully at
tau 636.
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; definition; ethics; historiography; imagery; mythology; philosophy; stagecraft; tragedy; women
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 24 September 2000@19:02:27.
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