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                    "description": "(adjective) = τραγικός,: trăgĭcus, a, um\n* Of or belonging to tragedy, tragic.\n* Lit.\n* Adj.: carmen,i. e. tragedy,Hor. A. P. 220: Camena,id. ib. 275: cothurni,id. S. 1, 5, 64: versus,id. A. P. 89: ars,id. Ep. 1, 3, 14: genus scaenarum,Vitr. 5, 8: actor,a tragic actor, tragedian,Liv. 24, 24, 2: Orestes aut Athamas,represented in tragedy,Cic. Pis. 20, 47; cf. cerva,i. e. in the tragedy of Iphigenia,Juv. 12, 120: tragicum illud  subinde jactabat: oderint dum metuant,Suet. Calig. 30.\n* Transf.\n* A tragedian, tragic actor; plur., Plaut. Pers. 4, 2, 4.\n* In the tragic style, tragic, lofty, grand, sublime: fuit Sulpicius vel maxime omnium grandis et, ut ita dicam, tragicus orator,Cic. Brut. 55, 203: sed haec tragica atque divina,id. de Or. 2, 56, 227: color,Hor. A. P. 236: tumor,Gell. 2, 23, 21: ore,Mart. 8, 18, 8: nam spirat tragicum satis,Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 166.\n* Of a tragic nature, tragic, horrible, fearful, terrible: res tragicas paene comice, tristes remisse tractavit,Cic. de Or. 3, 8, 30: tulit et Romana regia sceleris tragici exemplum,Liv. 1, 46, 3: concubitus,Juv. 2, 29: ignes (i. e. amores),Ov. Tr. 2, 407: Erinnyes,Prop. 2, 20 (3, 13), 29: asperitas,Val. Max. 5, 8, 1.—Adv.: trăgĭcē, in a tragic manner, tragically: mortem rhetorice et tragice ornare,Cic. Brut. 11, 43; Sen. Ep. 100, 10."
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