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τραγῳδοποιός

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: τραγῳδοποιός τραγῳδοποιοῦ

Structure: τραγῳδοποι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: poie/w

Sense

  1. a maker of tragedies, a tragic poet, tragedian

Examples

  • καὶ τὰ μὲν ἄλλα ὁ Ἀριστόδημοσ οὐκ ἔφη μεμνῆσθαι τῶν λόγων ‐ οὔτε γὰρ ἐξ ἀρχῆσ παραγενέσθαι ὑπονυστάζειν τε ‐ τὸ μέντοι κεφάλαιον, ἔφη, προσαναγκάζειν τὸν Σωκράτη ὁμολογεῖν αὐτοὺσ τοῦ αὐτοῦ ἀνδρὸσ εἶναι κωμῳδίαν καὶ τραγῳδίαν ἐπίστασθαι ποιεῖν, καὶ τὸν τέχνῃ τραγῳδοποιὸν ὄντα <καὶ> κωμῳδοποιὸν εἶναι. (Plato, Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus, 544:1)

Synonyms

  1. a maker of tragedies

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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