Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon

A.of or like a goat, goatish, in this sense first in later authors, as Plu.Pyrrh.11, Luc.DDeor.22.1; in a double sense, “τὸ ψευδὲς τραχὺ καὶ τ.” goatlike and tragic, Pl.Cra.408c.

II. commonly, of or for tragedy, tragic, “χοροί” Hdt.5.67; σκευή, σκηνή, etc., Pl.R.577b, X.Cyr.6.1.54, etc.; “τ. ποιηταί” Aeschin.3.231, cf. SIG692.32 (Delph., ii B. C.); τ. αὐλητής, συναγωνισταί, OGI51.62, 56 (Ptolemais, iii B. C.); τ. ἀνήρ, = τραγῳδός 111, Pl.Phd.115a; so “οἱ τ.” Arist.Rh.1415a18 (but ὁ τ. specially of Euripides, Ph.2.53,469; he is called “-ώτατος τῶν ποιητῶν” Arist.Po.1453a29); σπουδὴ τ. the seriousness of tragedy, Pl.Lg. 838c; τ. λῆρος tragic trumpery, Ar.Ra.1005; ἡ τ. ποίησις serious poetry (cf. “τραγῳδία” 11), Pl.R.602b; “ἡ τ.” Arist.Rh.1403b22; “τὰ τ.” Pl.R.595c, Phdr.269a.

2. generally, tragic, stately, majestic, “ὅπως ἐφαίνου . . -ώτερος” Ar.Pax136; “τ. γάρ ἐστιν ἡ ἀπόκρισις” Pl.Men.76e; “διὰ τὸ σεμνὸν καὶ τ.” pathos, Arist. Rh.1406b8, cf. Po.1456a21, Pr.918a10.

3. in bad sense, pompous, “εἴσοδος” Plb.5.26.9, cf. Plu.2.330a, Luc.Im.21; ranting, D.18.313: prov., τ. πίθηκος, ἐπὶ τῶν παρ᾽ ἀξίαν σεμνυνομένων, Hsch.

III. Adv. -κῶς in tragic or stately style, “τ. λέγειν” Pl.R.413b, 545e; “ἵνα σοι καὶ -ώτερον λαλῶ” Men.531.8; “-ώτερον ποιεῖν” Luc.Pisc.39, cf. Hist.Conscr.16; -ώτερον οἰκεῖν to be housed in stately fashion, Plu.Publ.10.