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Exaggerated complaint.[1]
Aristophanes in Wealth [writes]: "perhaps it is a Fury from a tragedy." For the ways of repelling phantoms fit tragic poets better, and in tragedies the Furies used to come on with torches.[2]
"But as to how things happened, it is the work of someone wishing to write a tragedy, not chronicling a history".[3] And elsewhere: "[she] suffering things worthy of a tragedy."[4]

Τραγῳδία: δεινοπάθεια. Ἀριστοφάνης Πλούτῳ: ἴσως Ἐριννύς ἐστιν ἐκ τραγῳδίας. τὰ γὰρ ἀποτρόπαια τῶν φαντασμάτων τραγῳδοῖς μᾶλλον ἁρμόττει, ἐν δὲ ταῖς τραγῳδίαις μετὰ λαμπάδων εἰσήρχοντο αἱ Ἐριννύες. τὸ δὲ ὅπως ἐγένοντο, τραγῳδίαν βουλομένου γράφειν ἐστίν, οὐχ ἱστορίαν συγγράφοντος. καὶ αὖθις: παθοῦσα τραγῳδίας ἄξια.

[1] cf. the scholia to Plato, Republic 394C, where the headword occurs.
[2] Aristophanes, Wealth [Plutus] 423 (see link below), with comment from the scholia there. For the Furies see generally epsilon 2994, epsilon 2995.
[3] Evidently a quotation, and the note in Adler reasonably suggests Polybius (known for his contempt of hellenistic "tragic history") as its author.
[4] cf. tau 636 (Aelian).

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