ἔλεγος

English (LSJ)

ὁ,

   A song, melody, orig. accompanied by the flute, cf. ἄλυρος ἔ. E.Hel.185 (lyr.), IT146 (lyr.); Ἀσίας ἔ. ἰήϊος Id.Hyps.Fr.3(1)iii9; so Ἔλεγοι, title of a νόμος αὐλῳδικός, Plu.2.1132d; of the song of the nightingale, Ar.Av.218(pl.); ἔλεγον οἶτον, of the halcyon, E.IT1091 (lyr.); later, lament, song of mourning, A.R.2.782.    II poem in elegiac distichs, Call.Fr.121; ἱλαροὶ ἔ. AP10.19 (Apollonid.). (Commonly derived from ἒ ἒ λέγειν, to cry woe! woe! EM326.49.)