elegia
Οὐ γὰρ ἀργίας ὤνιον ἡ ὑγίεια καὶ ἀπραξίας, ἅ γε δὴ μέγιστα κακῶν ταῖς νόσοις πρόσεστι, καὶ οὐδὲν διαφέρει τοῦ τὰ ὄμματα τῷ μὴ διαβλέπειν καὶ τὴν φωνὴν τῷ μὴ φθέγγεσθαι φυλάττοντος ὁ τὴν ὑγίειαν ἀχρηστίᾳ καὶ ἡσυχίᾳ σῴζειν οἰόμενος → For health is not to be purchased by idleness and inactivity, which are the greatest evils attendant on sickness, and the man who thinks to conserve his health by uselessness and ease does not differ from him who guards his eyes by not seeing, and his voice by not speaking
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
ĕlĕgīa: (ĕlĕgēa, in Ov. ĕlĕgēĭă), ae, f., = ἐλεγεία.
I An elegy: form elegia, Quint. 10, 1, 58; 93; Stat. S. 1, 2, 7; Mart. 5, 30, 4; Aus. Parent. 7, 1; form elegea, Quint. 1, 8, 6; form elegeia, Ov. Am. 3, 1, 7; 3, 9, 3; id. R. Am. 379.—
II A kind of reed: est et obliqua harundo, non in excelsitatem nascens, sed juxta terram fruticis modo se spargens, suavissima in teneritate animalibus: vocatur a quibusdam elegia, Plin. 16, 36, 66, § 167.
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
ĕlĕgīa (-gēa et -gēïa), æ, f. (ἐλεγεία)
1 élégie [genre de poème] : Quint. 10, 1, 58 ; Ov. Am. 3, 1, 7
2 espèce de roseau : Plin. 16, 167.
Latin > German (Georges)
elegīa, ae, f. (ελεγεία), I) (auch elegēa u. [[[nach]] einigen] elegēia), das elegische Gedicht, die Elegie, Ov., Quint. u.a. – II) eine niedrig wachsende Rohrart, Plin. 16, 167.