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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

"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)
ἐπεὶ οὖν ἄπειροσ εἶ τῆσ τοιαύτησ θεωρίασ, μάθε παρ’ ἐμοῦ ὅτι πρῶτον μὲν ἡ τῶν κοττάβων εὑρ́εσισ Σικελική ἐστιν παιδιά, ταύτην πρώτων εὑρόντων Σικελῶν, ὡσ Κριτίασ φησὶν ὁ Καλλαίσχρου ἐν τοῖσ Ἐλεγείοισ διὰ τούτων κότταβοσ ἐκ Σικελῆσ ἐστι χθονὸσ ἐκπρεπὲσ ἔργον, ὃν σκοπὸν ἐσ λατάγων τόξα καθιστάμεθα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 2 2:5)
μνημονεύει τῶν λατάγων καὶ τῶν κοττάβων καὶ ὁ Χαλκοῦσ καλούμενοσ Διονύσιοσ ἐν τοῖσ Ἐλεγείοισ διὰ τούτων κότταβον ἐνθάδε σοι τρίτον ἑστάναι οἱ δυσέρωτεσ ἡμεῖσ προστίθεμεν γυμνασίῳ Βρομίου, κώρυκον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 7 2:1)
ὅτι δὲ ἦν τισ περὶ αὐτοὺσ δόξα παρὰ τοῖσ Σικελιώταισ Ἀλέξανδροσ ὁ Αἰτωλὸσ ὁ τραγῳδοδιδάσκαλοσ ποιήσασ ἐλεγεῖον τρόπον τοῦτον δηλοῖ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 56 1:3)
ἐφ’ οἷσ οὐ μόνον κοινῇ σύμπαντεσ οἱ πολῖται τιμὰσ ἀπέδοσαν αὐτῷ πρεπούσασ, ἀλλὰ καὶ κατ’ ἰδίαν οἱ φυγάδεσ εἰκόνα χαλκῆν ἀναστήσαντεσ ἐπέγραψαν τόδε τὸ ἐλεγεῖον· (Plutarch, Aratus, chapter 14 2:2)
ἐν δὲ Σαλαμῖνι παρὰ τὴν πόλιν ἔδωκαν αὐτοῖσ θάψαι τε τοὺσ ἀποθανόντασ, ὡσ ἄνδρασ ἀγαθοὺσ γενομένουσ, καὶ ἐπιγράψαι τόδε τὸ ἐλεγεῖον ὦ ξένε, εὐύδρὸν ποτ’ ἐναίομεν ἄστυ Κορίνθου, νῦν δ’ ἅμ’ Αἰάντοσ νᾶσοσ ἔχει Σαλαμίσ. (Plutarch, De Herodoti malignitate, section 39 10:1)
διὰ Σελινοῦντοσ δέ ποτε τῆσ Σικελίασ πορευόμενοσ ἰδὼν ἐπὶ μνήματοσ ἐλεγεῖον ἐπιγεγραμμένον, σβεννύντασ ποτὲ τούσδε τυραννίδα χάλκεοσ Ἄρησ εἷλε· (Plutarch, Apophthegmata Laconica, , section 21)
ἐλεγεῖον ἐπιγεγραμμένον σβεννύντασ ποτὲ τούσδε τυραννίδα χάλκεοσ Ἄρησ εἷλε· (Plutarch, Apophthegmata Laconica, , section 22)

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)

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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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ἐλεγεῖον

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an elegiac poem

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ἐλεγεῖον

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an elegiac poem

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