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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

  • ὁ μὲν γὰρ ἀντικωμῳδῶν τὸν Ἀλκαῖον τῷ ἐλεγείῳ παρέβαλεν αφλοιοσ καὶ ἄφυλλοσ, ὁδοιπόρε, τῷδ’ ἐπὶ νώτῳ Ἀλκαίῳ σταυρὸσ πήγνυται ἠλίβατοσ· (Plutarch, Titus Flamininus, chapter 9 3:2)
  • οὐ γάρ πωσ ἦν τοὔνομ’ ἐφαρμόζειν ἐλεγείῳ· (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , other31)
  • εἰσὶ δὲ καὶ οἳ δεῦρο μὲν ἀφικέσθαι τὸν Αἰνείαν μυθολογοῦσιν, οὐ μέντοι τήν γε τελευτὴν αὐτῷ τοῦ βίου συμπεσεῖν ἐν τοῖσ2δε τοῖσ χωρίοισ, ἀλλ’ ἐν Ἰταλίᾳ, ὡσ ἄλλοί τε πολλοὶ δηλοῦσι καὶ Ἀγάθυλλοσ Ἀρκὰσ ὁ ποιητὴσ ἐν ἐλεγείῳ λέγων ὧδε· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 1, chapter 49 2:3)

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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