A poem in Latin elegiac verse, it was first published in two books in 1549, and revised form and enlarged to three books in 1552.

Major themes were guile, deception, lust and sexual scheming and were produced in elegiac verse modeled on that of Ovid.

This consisted of large additions to the main contents of two former volumes of idyllic, satiric, elegiac and lyric verse.

After the fall of the empire, one writer who produced elegiac verse was Maximianus.

The elegiac verses attributed to Theognis present him as a complex character and an exponent of traditional Greek morality.

In these elegiac verses:

Simonides wrote a wide range of choral lyrics with an Ionian flavour and elegiac verses in Doric idioms.

The narration has many noteworthy elegiac verses such as the mourning of Chandramati over the death of her young son Lohitashva from snake bite.

Next appeared an edition in elegiac verse, cited by the Suda, but the author's name is unknown.

Here are sagacious, elegiac verses, at once visceral and tender, local and possessive of an organic unity: this is an impressive collection from an important poet.