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.