Τραγικὸν πάθος

tragic experience

Translated by Catharine Roth25 May 2011Vetting: high5 revisions

5 words

[Meaning one] full of misfortune.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Τραγικὸν πάθος· συμφορᾶς μεστόν.

Betacode

*tragiko\n pa/qos: sumfora=s mesto/n.

Notes

Likewise in the Synagoge and Photius' Lexicon (tau410 Theodoridis), similarly in Hesychius (and Apostolius 17.29).
The headword phrase occurs in Gregory of Nyssa, Life of Macrina 9.5, and in scholia on Sophocles, Ajax 1123, but it (or at least the concept) behind it is surely earlier. For the glossing phrase Theodoridis cites a scholion on tragikw=n in Plato, Republic 10.595C: tw=n sumfora=s mestw=n.

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29 May 2016coding — David Whitehead
20 Jan 2014note tweak — David Whitehead
19 Jan 2014coding — Catharine Roth
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25 May 2011more keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
25 May 2011Translated — Catharine Roth