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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

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

  • 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

  1. an elegiac poem

Related

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

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