If we except a very few of the best poems of Propertius, Latin Elegiacs have nothing to show that combines such perfection of form with such exquisite sensuous charm.
Therefore, whenever you have a passage of his elegiacs to translate, you should, if possible, learn it by heart.
The flexibility and elasticity of rhythm of the finest Greek elegiacshe made his own.
His amatory elegiacs have an exuberance of colouring and sensuous force of phrase that seem peculiarly appropriate to the Bay of Naples, where they were inspired.
He was distinguished by his command of versification: the fluency with which he poured fourth Latin elegiacs and hexameters approached that of an improvisatore of the Molo.
Of his Greek elegiacs only a few specimens survive.
It was not only the Greeks and Latins whose august measures appealed to Haigh; never a copy of elegiacs set he, but it was a gem already in its native English, and his voice must throb with its music even as he dictated it to his form.
His French songs and Greek elegiacs are of great excellence; probably no scholar who was not also a poet could match his Greek lines on Landor.
In this way we read tragedy heroically, comedy conversationally, elegiacs thrillingly, epics sustainedly, lyrics musically, and dirges softly and plaintively.
The poetry consisted chiefly of the epics of Homer and Hesiod, the elegiacs of Tyrtæus, Solon, Theognis, etc.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "elegiacs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
