ἐλεγειακός
From LSJ
εἰ ἀποκρυπτόντων τῶν Μήδων τὸν ἥλιον ὑπὸ σκιῇ ἔσοιτο πρὸς αὐτοὺς ἡ μάχη καὶ οὐκ ἐν ἡλίῳ → if the Medes hid the sun, the battle would be to them in the shade and not in the sun
English (LSJ)
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A elegiac, πεντάμετρον D.H.Comp.25, cf.Heph.1.5; written in distichs, ἐπίνικον Ath.4.144e, etc.
German (Pape)
[Seite 793] elegisch; πεντάμετρον Dion. Hal. de C. V. 25; ἐπινίκιον Ath. IV, 144 e; βιβλία XIII, 597 a.