I.of or belonging to tragedy, tragic.
I. Lit.
A. 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.—
B. Subst.: trăgĭcus , i, m., a tragic poet, writer of tragedy, Cic. Opt. Gen. 1, 2; Quint. 8, 6, 26; 9, 3, 14; Petr. 132 med.—
2. A tragedian, tragic actor; plur., Plaut. Pers. 4, 2, 4.—
II. Transf.
A. 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.—
B. 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.
