ἐλεγεῖον · elegeion — LSJ
distich consisting of hexameter and pentameter
distich consisting of hexameter and pentameter, Critias 4.3D., Th. 1.132, Arist. Po. 1447b12.
II elegiac poem, inscription
in pl., ἐλεγεῖα, τά, elegiac poem or inscription, 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 lament, elegy
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, the pentameter
a single line in an elegiac inscription, prop. the pentameter, Id. Mus. 2.1141a, Heph. 15.14.