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Headword: *)elegei=on
Adler number: epsilon,773
Translated headword: elegaic, elegiac
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
A particular meter.[1]
Also [sc. attested is] e)legei/an ["elegy, poem"] in the feminine.[2]
Greek Original:
*)elegei=on: me/tron ti. kai\ *)elegei/an qhlukw=s.
Notes:
cf. epsilon 772, epsilon 774.
[1] a.k.a. elegiac/elegiac couplet (a hexameter plus a pentameter).
[2] (And, here, the accusative case.) For this equivalence see e.g. Plutarch, Solon 8.2.
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; meter and music; poetry
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 24 March 2003@01:16:17.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (added notes and keyword) on 24 March 2003@03:13:15.
David Whitehead on 12 August 2012@08:36:06.
David Whitehead (coding) on 16 December 2015@03:06:22.
David Whitehead (further tweaks) on 16 December 2015@03:08:42.
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