The tragedians
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the tragedians · tragedian
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Republic
Poets whose tragic works are cited as claiming Asclepius accepted a bribe.
and yet in disregard of our principles the tragedians and Pindar affirm that Asclepius, though he was the son of Apollo, was bribed by gold to heal a man already at the point of death, and that for this cause he was struck by the lightning.
De Spectaculis
Actors performing tragedy on stilted buskins, repeatedly condemned across the passage.
Then are the tragedians more to be heard, more vocal, that is, in their own proper calamity;
So too he has raised up the tragedians on buskins, because "no one can add one cubit to his stature":
" It is established too that to another a linen cloth was shown in her sleep on the night of that day on which she had heard a tragedian, with reproach, the tragedian being named—and not beyond the fifth day was that woman in the world.