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Definition of Elegiasts
1. elegiast [n] - See also: elegiast
Lexicographical Neighbors of Elegiasts
Literary usage of Elegiasts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Catullus by Gaius Valerius Catullus (1893)
"80), though it is not used by Horace, the elegiasts, or Martial. ... Plautus uses
the word as an adjective only once, but the elegiasts and later prose ..."
2. The Contemporary Review (1870)
"But there is a little want of arrangement, or of defined purpose, in ranking
among the elegiasts Archilochus and Simonides of Amorgos, and then, ..."
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