Elegies synonyms

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monodies
An ode, as in Greek drama, for a single voice, often specifically a mournful song or dirge.
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songs
A lyric poem or ballad.
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poems
A piece of writing in the tradition of poetry, an instance of poetry.
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dirges
A slow, sad song, poem, or musical composition expressing grief or mourning; lament
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  • The subjects of the poems are threefold: (I) amatory and personal, mostly regarding Cynthia - seventy-two (sixty Cynthia elegies), of which the last book contains three; (2) political and social, on events of the day - thirteen, including three in the last book; (3) historical and antiquarian - six, of which five are in the last book.

  • An elaborate symmetry is observable in the construction of many of his elegies, and this has tempted critics to divide a number of them into strophes.

  • The second separation is vouched for by the two last elegies of book iii.

  • A more sympathetic attitude appears in two elegies (xix.), one on the kings Jehoahaz and Jehoiachin, the other on the nation.

  • I also read Tibullus, Catullus, Propertius, Horace (with Dacier's and Torrentius's notes), Virgil, Ovid's Epistles, with l"leziriac's commentary, the Ars amandi and the Elegies; likewise the Augustus and Tiberius of Suetonius, and a Latin translation of Dion Cassius from the death of Julius Caesar to the death of Augustus.

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