Crossword-Solution: ELEGIA 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 7

The most ancient of these is the _Nux elegia_, which, if not Ovid's, must be very shortly posterior to him; it is the complaint of a walnut tree on the harsh treatment it has to suffer, sometimes in very difficult verse, [54] but not inelegant.

Ovid has left a charming little poem, _Nucis Elegia_--the plaint of the Walnut tree--because beaten with sticks and pelted with stones, in return for the generosity with which it bestows on mankind its fair produce.

The original has "credenti nulla procella nocet." [299] "Excipiamque humeris." ELEGIA XII.[300] Exultat, quod amica potitus sit.

The original has "Aque sua caesum matre queruntur Ityn." [313] "Sed tristibus utraque causis Jactura socii sanguinis ulta virum." [314] An inelegant translation of "Saepe suos uteros quae necat ipse perit." [315] Marlowe has given a meaning the very opposite of the original--"Et clamant 'Merito' qui modo cumque vident." ELEGIA XV.[316] Ad annulum, quem dono amicÊ dedit.

Here while I walk, hid close in shady grove, To find what work my muse might move, I strove, Elegia came with hairs perfumËd sweet, And one, I think, was longer, of her feet: A decent form, thin robe, a lover's look, By her foot's blemish greater grace she took.