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to be angry
Some of the ancients [say that this means] to be out of one's mind, and some think that the elegiac meter is named from this, because Theocles of Naxos or Eretria first cried out [in] it when he was mad.
Ἐλεγείνειν· τὸ παραφρονεῖν τινες τῶν παλαιῶν, καὶ τὸ ἐλεγεῖον μέτρον ἀπὸ τούτου κληθῆναί τινες νομίζουσιν, ὅτι Θεοκλῆς Νάξιος ἢ Ἐρετριεὺς πρῶτος αὐτὸ ἀνεφθέγξατο μανείς.