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Definition of Elegists
1. elegist [n] - See also: elegist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Elegists
Literary usage of Elegists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Sounds and Inflections of the Greek Dialects: Ionic by Herbert Weir Smyth (1894)
"(in all twenty-two times) ; (2) elegists ... and elegists of Ionic birth used
both is and ds, but that the latter is employed only before a vowel, ..."
2. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"They stand between the Ionian epos and the lyric poetry of the Aeolian s and
Dorians. The earliest of the Greek elegists, ..."
3. A Short History of Greek Literature from Homer to Julian by Wilmer Cave France Wright (1907)
"But epic, the poetry of the past, was its starting point and model, so that all
the elegists, even those whose interest is chiefly gnomic, employed Homeric ..."
4. The Roman Elegiac Poets by Karl Pomeroy Harrington (1914)
"Although Ovid does not include Catullus in his well- known canon of the Roman
elegists,1 he elsewhere recognizes him as belonging to the same group2 and ..."
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