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A distich consisting of hexameter and pentameter, Critias 4.3D., Th.1.132, Arist.Po.1447b12. II in pl., ἐλεγεῖα, τά, elegiac poem or inscription, merely in reference to the metre, not to the subject, Pl.R.368a, Arist.Rh.1375b32, Lycurg.142, D.59.98; even in two hexameters, Pherecr.153.7; sg., Ps.-Hdt.Vit.Hom.36. 2 later, lament, elegy, Paus.10.7.5, Luc.Tim.46; cf. ἐλεγεῖα· τὰ ἐπιτάφια ποιήματα, Hsch.: in sg., D.S.11.14, D.H.1.49, Plu.Them.8, etc. III a single line in an elegiac inscription, prop. the pentameter, Id.2.1141a, Heph.15.14.
