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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

  • ἐπὶ τούτοισ ὁ Οὐλπιανὸσ ᾔτει πιεῖν μεγάλῃ κύλικι, ἐπιλέγων ἐκ τῶν αὐτῶν ἐλεγείων καὶ τόδε· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 81)
  • καὶ ὁ Δημόκριτοσ ἀλλ’ ἵνα κἀγώ, φησίν, μνημονεύσω τῶν τοῦ Χαλκοῦ ποιητοῦ καὶ ῥήτοροσ Διονυσίου Χαλκοῦσ δὲ προσηγορεύθη διὰ τὸ συμβουλεῦσαι Ἀθηναίοισ χαλκῷ νομίσματι χρήσασθαι , καὶ τὸν λόγον τοῦτον ἀνέγραψε Καλλίμαχοσ ἐν τῇ τῶν Ῥητορικῶν Ἀναγραφῇ λέξω τι καὶ αὐτὸσ ἐκ τῶν Ἐλεγείων σὺ δέ, ὦ Θεόδωρε τοῦτο γάρ σου τὸ κύριον ὄνομα, δέχου τήνδε προπινομένην τὴν ἀπ’ ἐμοῦ ποίησιν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 91)
  • χρήσιμον δ’ ἐστὶ καὶ τούτων ἀκοῦσαι τῶν ἐλεγείων, ἵν’ ἐπίστησθε οἱᾶ ποιοῦντεσ εὐδοκίμουν παρ’ ἐκείνοισ. (Lycurgus, Speeches, 144:2)
  • ταῦτ’ εἴληφεν ὁ Εὐριπίδησ ἐκ τῶν τοῦ Κολοφωνίου ἐλεγείων Ξενοφάνουσ οὕτωσ εἰρηκότοσ ἀλλ’ εἰ μὲν ταχυτῆτι ποδῶν νίκην τισ ἄροιτο ἢ πενταθλεύων, ἔνθα Διὸσ τέμενοσ πὰρ Πίσαο ῥοῇσ1’ ἐν Ὀλυμπίῃ, εἴτε παλαίων ἢ καὶ πυκτοσύνην ἀλγινόεσσαν ἔχων, εἴτε τὸ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 61)
  • "ὁμοίωσ δὲ Τερπάνδρῳ Κλονᾶν, τὸν πρῶτον συστησάμενον τοὺσ αὐλῳδικοὺσ νόμουσ καὶ τὰ προσόδια, ἐλεγείων τε καὶ ἐπῶν ποιητὴν γεγονέναι· (Pseudo-Plutarch, De musica, section 3 1:14)

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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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