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ἐλεγεῖον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐλεγεῖον ἐλεγεῖου

Structure: ἐλεγει (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: e)/legos

Sense

  1. a distich consisting of hexameter and pentameter, the metre of the elegy
  2. an elegiac poem

Declension

Second declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἐλεγεῖον ἐλεγείω ἐλεγεῖα
Genitive ἐλεγείου ἐλεγείοιν ἐλεγείων
Dative ἐλεγείῳ ἐλεγείοιν ἐλεγείοις
Accusative ἐλεγεῖον ἐλεγείω ἐλεγεῖα
Vocative ἐλεγεῖον ἐλεγείω ἐλεγεῖα

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

  • "ἦν γὰρ ταῦτα, εἴ γε μέμνημαι, τὰ ἐλεγεῖα· (Lucian, Symposium, (no name) 40:7)
  • ἔγραψε δὲ καὶ ἐλεγεῖα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 302)
  • ὁ δ’ ἄχθεται αὐτὸσ ὁ θύων τῷ κατακωλύοντι καὶ εὐθὺσ ἔλεξ’ ἐλεγεῖα· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 66 3:4)
  • κατέλιπε γὰρ αὐτοῖσ ἐλεγεῖα ποιήσασ, ὧν ἀκούοντεσ παιδεύονται πρὸσ ἀνδρείαν· (Lycurgus, Speeches, 143:2)
  • ὧν οὗτοσ οὐδὲ τὰ ἐλεγεῖα τὰ ἐπιγεγραμμένα τοῖσ μνημείοισ ἐπανιὼν εἰσ τὴν πόλιν ᾐδέσθη, ἀλλ’ οὕτωσ ἀναιδῶσ ἐν τοῖσ ὀφθαλμοῖσ τῶν πενθησάντων τὰσ ἐκείνων συμφορὰσ ἡγεῖται δεῖν ἀναστρέφεσθαι. (Lycurgus, Speeches, 199:2)
  • καὶ μὴν ἐλεγεῖά γε ᾄσῃ μάλα περιπαθῶσ ὑπὸ ταύτῃ τῇ δικέλλῃ. (Lucian, Timon, (no name) 45:7)

Synonyms

  1. an elegiac poem

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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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