ἔλεγος

elegos

song, melody

Appears 21 times across Aristotle's works.

Frequency by work

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Metaphysics 4
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Book Α 2
Chapter 6 987a29–988a17

987b24

Chapter 9 990a33–993a10

991a18
Book Μ 2
Chapter 5 1079b12–1080a11

1079b21

Chapter 8 1083a1–1085a2

1084b32
De Anima 3
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Book III 3
Chapter 2 425b12–427a16

426a20
426a22
426a26
On the Heavens 2
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Book II 1
Chapter 2 284b6–286a2

285a11
Book IV 1
Chapter 3 310a16–311a14

310b1
Eudemian Ethics 2
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Book VII 1
Chapter 1 1234b18–1235b12

1235a38
Book VIII 1
Chapter 2 1246b37–1248b7

1248a30
Rhetoric 2
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Book II 1
Chapter 23 1397a7–1400b33

1400a33
Book III 1
Chapter 7 1408a10–1408b20

1408a15
Nicomachean Ethics 1
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Book I 1
Chapter 6 1096a11–1097a14

1096a18
Generation of Animals 1
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Book I 1
Chapter 18 722a1–726a27

725a21
History of Animals 1
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Book II 1
Chapter 1 497b6–501b4

498a9
On Dreams 1
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Chapter 3 460b28–462b11

461b24
On Memory 1
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Chapter 1 449b4–451a17

451a10
Oeconomica 1
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Book I 1
Chapter 6 1344b22–1345b3

1344b35
Physics 1
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Book IV 1
Chapter 13 222a10–222b29

222b17
Politics 1
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Book VII 1
Chapter 17 1336a3–1337a7

1336b28

Dictionary (LSJ)

ἔλεγος, ὁ, A. song, melody, orig. accompanied by the flute, cf. ἄλυρος ἔ. E. Hel. 185 (lyr.), IT 146 (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. IT 1091 (lyr.); later, lament, song of mourning, A.R. 2.782. II. poem in elegiac distichs, Call. Fr. 121; ἱλαροὶ ἔ. AP 10.19 (Apollonid.). (Commonly derived from ἒ ἒ λέγειν, to cry woe! woe! EM 326.49.)

Key passages & sense analysis (Bonitz)

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