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ἐλεγεῖον , τό,
A.distich consisting of hexameter and pentameter, Critias 4.3D., Th.1.132, Arist.Po.1447b12.
II. in pl., ἐλεγεῖα, τά, elegiac poem or inscription, merely in reference to the metre, not to the subject, Pl.R.368a, Arist.Rh.1375b32, Lycurg.142, D.59.98; even in two hexameters, Pherecr.153.7; sg., Ps.-Hdt.Vit.Hom.36.
2. later, lament, elegy, Paus.10.7.5, Luc.Tim.46; cf. ἐλεγεῖα: τὰ ἐπιτάφια ποιήματα, Hsch.: in sg., D.S.11.14, D.H.1.49, Plu.Them.8, etc.
III. a single line in an elegiac inscription, prop. the pentameter, Id.2.1141a, Heph.15.14.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (10):
    • Aristotle, Poetics, 1447b.12
    • Demosthenes, Against Neaera, 98
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 11.14
    • Lycurgus, Against Leocrates, 142
    • Pausanias, Description of Greece, 10.7.5
    • Plato, Republic, 368a
    • Thucydides, Histories, 1.132
    • Plutarch, Themistocles, 8
    • Lucian, Timon, 46
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, 1.49
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