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ἐλεγεῖον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐλεγεῖον ἐλεγεῖου

Structure: ἐλεγει (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: e)/legos

Sense

a distich consisting of hexameter and pentameter, the metre of the elegy
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

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)

Synonyms

an elegiac poem
- ποίημα (a poem)

ἐλεγεία (an elegy)
ἀγαλματοποιός (a maker of statues)
ἐπίγραμμα (an inscription)
πολύγνωτος (well-known)
πολύκλειτος (far-famed)
προσόδιος (belonging to or used in processions)
Ἐρετριεύς (an inhabitant of Eretria)
Ἀριστοφάνειος (of Aristophanes)
Ἀμυκλαῖον (the temple of Amyclaean Apollo)
Ἑρμιονεύς (an inhabitant of Hermione)
ὑπόρχημα (a hyporcheme or choral hymn to Apollo)
τετράμετρος (consisting of four metres)
παρῳδία (parody)
πολύμνηστος (much-remembering)
λυρικός (of or for the lyre)
ἰαμβοποιός (a writer of iambics)
Πριηνεύς (an inhabitant of Priene)
Ἁλικαρνασσεύς (an inhabitant of Halicarnassus or Petronium or Bodrum)
ᾆσμα (a song)
Ὀλυμπιεῖον (the temple of Olympian Zeus)
ἐπικήδειος (of or at a burial)
θεάριον (the place where the qewroi)
Στησίχορος (establishing)
ἡμεδαπός (of our land or country)
πολυίστωρ (very learned)
ῥοικός (crooked)
Μαίναλον (Mount Maenalus)
Κυθήριος (Cytherean)
Ἀρκάς (an inhabitant of Arcadia)
Πειραιεύς (Peiraeeus)

Similar forms

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

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ἐλεγεῖον

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an elegiac poem

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ἐλεγεῖον

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an elegiac poem

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