| 单词 | elegiac distich |
| 释义 | > as lemmaselegiac distich elegiac distich n. Prosody = elegiac couplet n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > part of poem > [noun] > stanza > couplet > elegiac couplet elegiac distich1665 elegiac couplet1790 elegy1794 1665 T. Stanley tr. Ælian Various Hist. i. xvii. 10 They writ an Elegiack Distich [Gk. δίστιχον ἐλεγεῖον] in golden letters in a Sesamum. 1771 W. Lauder Calumny Display'd 22 His Hexameters would, in Grandeur and Loftiness, have excelled his Elegiac Distich. 1886 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 7 251 An evident attempt to construct an elegiac distich, in which the pentameter, however, goes to pieces. 1940 Trans. & Proc. Amer. Philol. Assoc. 71 492 This principle of couplet-unity is of great importance in the interpretation of the elegiac distich. 2007 Stud. Philol. 104 38 Six lines of elegiac distich followed by six lines of hexameters. < as lemmas |
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