ἐλεγεῖον

elegeion

distich consisting of hexameter and pentameter

Appears 3 times across Aristotle's works.

Frequency by work

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Rhetoric 2
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Book I 1
Chapter 15 1375a22–1378a15

1375b32
Book III 1
Chapter 2 1404b1–1405b34

1405a33
Poetics 1
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Chapter 1 1447a8–1447b29

1447b12

Dictionary (LSJ)

ἐλεγεῖον, τό, A. 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. 2.1141a, Heph. 15.14.

Key passages & sense analysis (Bonitz)

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