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τραγῳδός

τραγῳδός, member of tragic chorus; (pl.) tragic performance; tragedian

τρᾰγῳδός, ὁ, late Boeot. τρᾰγᾰϝυδός (i. e. τραγαοιδός) IG 7.3195.21 (Orchom.):—
  • 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 (lyr.); 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. Po. 1458b32; τοῖς δὲ τ. ἕτερος σεμνὸς πᾶσιν λόγος ἄλλος ὅδʼ ἐστίν Crates Com. 24; ὡς οἱ τ. φασιν οἷς ἐξουσία ἔστιν λέγειν ἅπαντα καὶ ποιεῖν μόνοις Diph. 30.4.
      • 2 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. 22.2; Διονυσίων τραγῳδοῖς Supp.Epigr. 1.362.29 (Samos, iv B. C.); Διονυσίων ᾗ τραγῳδοί on the day of the Dionysia on which there is a tragic performance, IG 12(8).640 (Peparethus, ii B. C.); τραγῳδῶν τῷ ἀγῶνι ib. 12(5).1341 (Paros, iii B. C.), 22.1214; τραγῳδῶν τῷ ἀγῶνι τῷ καινῷ ib. 682.76; τραγῳδὸς ἦν ἀγὼν Διονύσια Men. 873 (fort. τραγῳδῶν or -δοῖς) ; τοὺς γὰρ τραγῳδοὺς πρῶτον, εἰ βούλει, σκόπει ὡς ὠφελοῦσι πάντας Timocl. 6.8; εἰς τοὺς τραγῳδοὺς εὔθετʼ, οὐκ εἰς τὸν βίον Philem. 105.
    • II 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 συνᾳδόντων Plu. Adul. 2.63a; ἐπειδὴ Νίκων . . τ . . . ἀξιωθεὶς ἐπέδωκε τῷ θεῷ ἁμέραν καὶ ἀγωνίξατο . . · καλέσαι . . αὐτὸν καὶ τοὺς μετʼ αὐτοῦ τοὺς ἄρχοντας καὶ ἐν τὸ πρυτανεῖον SIG 659.3 (Delph., ii B. C.), cf. 424.42 (Delph., iii B. C.), al., OGI 51.47 (Egypt, iii B. C.), IG 7.3196.19 (Orchom. Boeot.), D.Chr. 33.8, Luc. Nav. 46, Anach. 23, Hist.Conscr. 1, 22, M.Ant. 3.8; τραγῳδούς miswritten for -δός in SIG 509.12 (Delph., iii B. C.), and perh. in IG 7.1773.21 (Thespiae).
    • III 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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