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Headword:
*tragw|di/a
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]
*tragw|di/a: deinopa/qeia. *)aristofa/nhs *plou/tw|: i)/sws *)erinnu/s e)stin e)k tragw|di/as. ta\ ga\r a)potro/paia tw=n fantasma/twn tragw|doi=s ma=llon a(rmo/ttei, e)n de\ tai=s tragw|di/ais meta\ lampa/dwn ei)sh/rxonto ai( *)erinnu/es. to\ de\ o(/pws e)ge/nonto, tragw|di/an boulome/nou gra/fein e)sti/n, ou)x i(stori/an suggra/fontos. kai\ au)=qis: paqou=sa tragw|di/as a)/cia.
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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