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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

  • 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

  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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