τραγικός

A. of or like 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, of or for 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 (but ὁ τ. specially of Euripides, Ph. 2.53,469; he is called ‐ώτατος τῶν ποιητῶν Arist. Po. 1453a29); σπουδὴ τ. the seriousness of tragedy, Pl. Lg. 838c; τ. λῆρος tragic trumpery, Ar. Ra. 1005; ἡ τ. ποίησις serious poetry (cf. τραγῳδία 11), Pl. R. 602b; ἡ τ. Arist. Rh. 1403b22; τὰ τ. Pl. R. 595c, Phdr. 269a.

2. generally, tragic, stately, majestic, ὅπως ἐφαίνου . . ‐ώτερος Ar. Pax 136; τ. γάρ ἐστιν ἡ ἀπόκρισις Pl. Men. 76e; διὰ τὸ σεμνὸν καὶ τ. pathos, Arist. Rh. 1406b8, cf. Po. 1456a21, Pr. 918a10.

3. in bad sense, pompous, εἴσοδος Plb. 5.26.9, cf. Plu. 2.330a, Luc. Im. 21; ranting, D. 18.313: prov., τ. πίθηκος, ἐπὶ τῶν παρ’ ἀξίαν σεμνυνομένων, Hsch.

III. Adv. ‐κῶς in tragic or stately style, τ. λέγειν Pl. R. 413b, 545e; ἵνα σοι καὶ ‐ώτερον λαλῶ Men. 531.8; ‐ώτερον ποιεῖν Luc. Pisc. 39, cf. Hist.Conscr. 16; ‐ώτερον οἰκεῖν to be housed in stately fashion, Plu. Publ. 10.