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|Definition=<span class="bld">A</span> [[act a tragedy]], Ar.''Nu.''1091.<br><span class="bld">2</span> c. acc. objecti, [[represent]] or [[exhibit in tragedy]], τινας Id.''Th.''85; τ. τὴν Ἀνδρομέδαν Luc.''Hist.Conscr.''1; τὰ παιδία.. τ. ὅτι ἂν ἴδῃ καὶ θαυμάσῃ Arr.''Epict.''3.15.5:—Pass., to [[be made the subject of a tragedy]], Isoc. 9.6, 15.136, Str.9.5.22, etc.; ὁ τραγῳδούμενος στέφανος [[famous in tragedy]], Plu.''Alex.''35; τὰ τραγῳδούμενα [[subjects of tragedy]], Id.2.837c.<br><span class="bld">3</span> metaph., [[make famous]] or [[well known]], <b class="b3">τὸ τάχιστον τετραγῳδημένον ἐν τῷ διώκειν</b>, of Achilles, Arist.''Ph.''239b25; ὅσα περὶ τὸ πρόσωπον φαίνεται τετραγῳδημένα κατὰ τὸ προγνωστικὸν ὑφ' Ἱπποκράτους Steph. ''in Gal.''1.246D.<br><span class="bld">II</span> metaph., [[tell in tragic style]], [[declaim]], ἡλίκα νῦν ἐτραγῴδει D.18.13, cf. 19.189; <b class="b3">ὀνόματα τ.</b> [[dress up]] words, [[Plato|Pl.]]''[[Cratylus|Cra.]]''414c:—Pass., ib.418d, Phld.''Oec.''p.24J.; also, [[exaggerate]], <b class="b3">τραγῳδεῖν ἂν δόξειε μᾶλλον ἢ ἀληθεύειν</b> would seem to [[be romancing]], Gal.''UP'' 16.4; <b class="b3">μὴ τ. τὸ πρᾶγμα</b> (''[[sc.]]'' <b class="b3">τὸ ἀποθανεῖν</b>), ἀλλ' εἰπὲ ὡς ἔχει Arr.''Epict.''4.7.15; <b class="b3">στολαὶ τετραγῳδημέναι</b> [[exlravagant]], [[flaunting]] robes, Antiph.36; τετραγῳδημένοι [[pompous]], [[braggart]], D.S.5.31.