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ἐλεγεία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐλεγεία

Structure: ἐλεγει (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. an elegy

Declension

First declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • καὶ γὰρ Ἀστερίασ τῷ γένει Σαλαμινίασ καὶ πάλιν Μνήστρασ τινὸσ ὁ ποιητὴσ Μελάνθιοσ μνημονεύει πρὸσ τὸν Κίμωνα παίζων δι’ ἐλεγείασ, ὡσ σπουδαζομένων ὑπ’ αὐτοῦ. (Plutarch, , chapter 4 8:2)
  • διὸ καὶ ἐν ἀρχῇ τῆσ ἐλεγείασ δεδοικέναι φησὶτήν τε φιλαργυρίαν τήν θ’ ὑπερηφανίαν, ὡσ διὰ ταῦτα τῆσ ἔχθρασ ἐνεστώσησ. (Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, work Ath. Pol., chapter 5 3:5)
  • ἔγραψε κατά τινασ πρῶτοσ ἰάμβουσ, Ἀρχαιολογίαν τε τῶν Σαμίων δι’ ἐλεγείασ ἐν βιβλίοισ β́, καὶ ἄλλα διάφορα. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume II, , section7)
  • τοῖσ ἐκ τῆσ Κρήτησ ἀφιγμένοισ Τεύκροισ, οὓσ πρῶτοσ παρέδωκε Καλλῖνοσ ὁ τῆσ ἐλεγείασ ποιητήσ, ἠκολούθησαν δὲ πολλοί, χρησμὸσ ἦν κτλ. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , section3)
  • φησὶ δὲ Καλλισθένησ ἁλῶναι τὰσ Σάρδεισ ὑπὸ Κιμμερίων πρῶτον, εἶθ’ ὑπὸ Τρηρῶν καὶ Λυκίων, ὅπερ καὶ Καλλῖνον δηλοῦν τὸν τῆσ ἐλεγείασ ποιητήν, ὕστατα δὲ τὴν ἐπὶ Κύρου καὶ Κροίσου γενέσθαι ἅλωσιν. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , section4)

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Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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