ἐλεγεῖον,τό,
A. distich consisting of hexameter and pentameter, Critias 4.3D. , Th. 1.132 , Arist. Po. 1447b12 .
II. in pl.,ἐλεγεῖα,τά ,elegiac poemorinscription, 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 .