τρᾰγῐκ-ός,ή,όν, (τράγος)
A. oforlike a goat, goatish,in this sense first in later authors, as Plu. Pyrrh. 11 , Luc. DDeor. 22.1 ; in a double sense, τὸ ψευδὲς τραχὺ καὶ τ. goatlike and tragic,
Pl. Cra. 408c
.
II. commonly,oforfor tragedy, tragic,
χοροί
Hdt. 5.67
;σκευή, σκηνή,etc., Pl. R. 577b , X. Cyr. 6.1.54 , etc.; τ. ποιηταί
Aeschin. 3.231
, cf. SIG 692.32 (Delph.,ii B. C.);τ. αὐλητής, συναγωνισταί,
OGI 51.62 , 56 (Ptolemais,iii B. C.);τ. ἀνήρ,
= τραγῳδός
111 , Pl. Phd. 115a ; so οἱ τ.
Arist. Rh. 1415a18
(butὁ τ.specially of Euripides, Ph. 2.53 , 469 ; he is called -ώτατος τῶν ποιητῶν