Sense

1. a goat-singer, a tragic poet and singer, act, a tragedian or tragic actor, the tragic poet
2. members of the tragic chorus
3. in tragedy

Examples

• τὸ γοῦν τῶν Ἰλιέων ἀτεχνῶσ πεπόνθαμεν τραγῳδόν τινα τοῦτον ἐφ’ ἡμᾶσ κεκινήκαμεν ᾀσόμενον τὰσ Φρυγῶν συμφοράσ. (Lucian, Piscator, (no name) 38:10)
• Ἀλέξανδροσ δ’ ὁ Φεραίων τύραννοσ ἔδει δὲ τοῦτο μόνον αὐτὸν καλεῖσθαι καὶ μὴ καταισχύνειν τὴν ἐπωνυμίαν, θεώμενοσ τραγῳδὸν ἐμπαθέστερον ὑφ’ ἡδονῆσ διετέθη πρὸσ τὸν οἶκτον. (Plutarch, De Alexandri magni fortuna aut virtute, chapter 2, section 1 7:1)
• οὗτοσ μὲν οὖν μικροῦ καὶ δίκην ἐπράξατο τὸν τραγῳδόν, ὅτι τὴν ψυχὴν αὐτοῦ καθάπερ σίδηρον ἐμάλαξεν. (Plutarch, De Alexandri magni fortuna aut virtute, chapter 2, section 1 9:1)
• ν̓, θεώμενοσ τραγῳδὸν ἐμπαθέστερον ὑφ’ ἡδονῆσ διετέθη πρὸσ τὸν οἶκτον. (Plutarch, De Alexandri magni fortuna aut virtute, chapter 2, section 1 3:2)
• οὗτοσ μὲν οὖν μικροῦ καὶ δίκην ἐπράξατο τὸν τραγῳδόν, ὅτι τὴν ψυχὴν αὐτοῦ καθάπερ σίδηρον ἐμάλαξεν. (Plutarch, De Alexandri magni fortuna aut virtute, chapter 2, section 1 3:4)

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