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Definition of Distichs

Distich
Distich Dis"tich, n. [L. distichon, Gr. ?, neut. of ? with two rows, of two verses; di- = di`s- twice + ? row, verse, fr. ? to ascend; akin to AS. st[=i]gan to ascend: cf. F. distique. See Stirrup.] (Pros.) A couple of verses or poetic lines making complete sense; an epigram of two verses.
Distich
Distich Dis"tich, Distichous Dis"tich*ous, a. [Gr. ?. See Distich, n.] Disposed in two vertical rows; two-ranked.

Meaning of Distichs from wikipedia

- article: Distichs of Cato Latin Wikisource has original text related to this article: Disticha Catonis Wikiquote has quotations related to Distichs of Cato...
- Tamil language has a rich and refined grammar for couplet poetry, and distichs in Tamil poetry follow the venpa metre. One of the most notable examples...
- **** Distich may refer to: A three volume novel by George Daniel A pseudonym of Alexander Pope This disambiguation page lists articles ****ociated with...
- Hundred Verses) in Brajbhasha, a collection of approximately seven hundred distichs, which is perhaps the most celebrated Hindi work of poetic art, as distinguished...
- thousand distichs. But this is a round figure; most of the relatively reliable m****cripts have preserved a little over fifty thousand distichs. Nizami...
- The elegiac couplet or elegaic distich is a poetic form used by Gr**** lyric poets for a variety of themes usually of smaller scale than the epic. Roman...
- Social War (91–87 BC) Dionysius Cato, 3rd or 4th century AD author of Distichs of Cato Cato (surname) Cato (given name) Jemmy, also known as "Cato", the...
- (present-day Turkey) in 1883. The stele includes two poems; an elegiac distich and a song with vocal notation signs above the words. A ****enistic Ionic...
- Hemisphere. aurora musis amica dawn is a friend to the muses Title of a distich by Iohannes Christenius (1599–1672): "Conveniens studiis non est nox, commoda...
- than this." Here the sum of both the first and second distich is 5699. In another of his distichs, the hexameter line is equal in number to its corresponding...