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ἐλεγεῖον

ἐλεγεῖον, a distich consisting of hexameter and pentameter, the metre of the elegy

ἐλεγεῖον, τό,
  • 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. Mus. 2.1141a, Heph. 15.14.

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