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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

  • Σοφοκλῆσ ὁ τραγῳδοποιὸσ ῥᾶγα σταφυλῆσ καταπιὼν ἀπεπνίγη πέντε καὶ ἐνενήκοντα ζήσασ ἔτη. (Lucian, Macrobii, (no name) 24:1)
  • ἐνταῦθ’ Ἀγάθων ὁ κλεινὸσ οἰκῶν τυγχάνει ὁ τραγῳδοποιόσ. (Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, Prologue 1:33)
  • ὡσ Εὐριπίδησ ὁ τραγῳδοποιόσ. (Plutarch, Parallela minora, section 244)
  • ταῖσ χερσὶν ἐξετύφλωσεν ὡσ Εὐριπίδησ ὁ τραγῳδοποιόσ. (Plutarch, Parallela minora, section 24 2:1)
  • καὶ Εὐριπίδησ δ’ ὁ τραγῳδοποιὸσ ἀποκαλύψασθαι μὲν οὐκ ἠθέλησε, δεδοικὼσ τὸν Ἄρειον πάγον· (Pseudo-Plutarch, Placita Philosophorum, book 1, 2:2)

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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