ἐλεγεῖον: Difference between revisions

|Definition=τό, <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> <b class="b2">distich consisting of hexameter and pentameter</b>, <span class="bibl">Critias 4.3D.</span>, <span class="bibl">Th.1.132</span>, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Po.</span>1447b12</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> in pl., <b class="b3">ἐλεγεῖα, τά</b>, <b class="b2">elegiac poem</b> or <b class="b2">inscription</b>, merely in reference to the metre, not to the subject, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">R.</span>368a</span>, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Rh.</span>1375b32</span>, <span class="bibl">Lycurg.142</span>, <span class="bibl">D.59.98</span>; even in two hexameters, <span class="bibl">Pherecr.153.7</span>; sg., Ps.-Hdt.<span class="title">Vit.Hom.</span>36. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> later, <b class="b2">lament, elegy</b>, <span class="bibl">Paus.10.7.5</span>, <span class="bibl">Luc.<span class="title">Tim.</span>46</span>; cf. <b class="b3">ἐλεγεῖα· τὰ ἐπιτάφια ποιήματα</b>, Hsch.: in sg., <span class="bibl">D.S.11.14</span>, <span class="bibl">D.H.1.49</span>, <span class="bibl">Plu.<span class="title">Them.</span>8</span>, etc. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">III</span> <b class="b2">a single line in an elegiac inscription</b>, prop. <b class="b2">the pentameter</b>, Id.2.1141a, <span class="bibl">Heph.15.14</span>.</span>