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Couplet
Senin, 2025-09-22 10:57:15

In poetry, a couplet (/ˈkʌplət/ CUP-lət) or distich (/ˈdɪstɪk/ DISS-tick) is a pair of successive lines that rhyme and have the same metre. A couplet...

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Distichs of Cato
Jumat, 2025-08-08 08:34:16

The Distichs of Cato (Latin: Catonis Disticha, most famously known simply as Cato) is a Latin collection of proverbial wisdom and morality by an unknown...

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Seikilos epitaph
Selasa, 2025-11-25 14:37:40

present-day Turkey) in 1883. The stele includes two poems; an elegiac distich and a song with vocal notation signs above the words. A Hellenistic Ionic...

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Dick Distich
Sabtu, 2019-12-28 14:05:44

Dick Distich may refer to: A three volume novel by George Daniel A pseudonym of Alexander Pope This disambiguation page lists articles associated with...

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Tawil
Senin, 2025-05-05 07:01:18

al-Ṭawīl (الطويل), is a meter used in classical Arabic poetry. It comprises distichs (bayt) of two 'lines'—in Arabic usually written side by side, with a space...

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Elegiac couplet
Sabtu, 2025-05-24 19:35:07

The elegiac couplet or elegiac distich is a poetic form used by Greek lyric poets for a variety of themes usually of smaller scale than the epic. Roman...

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Shahnameh
Minggu, 2026-06-07 10:07:15

CE and is the national epic of Greater Iran. Consisting of some 50,000 distichs or couplets (two-line verses), the Shahnameh is one of the world's longest...

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Poetry
Kamis, 2026-06-04 01:54:00

number of lines included. Thus a collection of two lines is a couplet (or distich), three lines a triplet (or tercet), four lines a quatrain, and so on....

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Raphael
Minggu, 2026-06-07 18:55:35

the Pope. The inscription on Raphael's marble sarcophagus, an elegiac distich written by Pietro Bembo, reads: "Here lies that famous Raphael by whom...

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Bihari Lal
Jumat, 2026-05-15 10:13:55

Hundred Verses) in Brajbhasha, a collection of approximately seven hundred distichs, which is perhaps the most celebrated Hindi work of poetic art, as distinguished...

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List of Latin phrases (full)
Rabu, 2026-03-18 05:56:57

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...

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Battle of Thermopylae
Minggu, 2026-05-31 20:29:54

original on 21 September 2017. Retrieved 10 October 2014. "this sublime distich (ἡ θρυλουμένη ἐπιγραφή) is quoted with variations by Strabo 429 (and others):...

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Ruba'i
Sabtu, 2025-10-04 12:28:40

Persian poetry, the ruba'i is written as a four-line (or two-couplet / two-distich) poem, with a rhyme-scheme A A B A {\displaystyle \mathrm {AABA} } or A...

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Latin prosody
Sabtu, 2026-04-04 00:06:25

tradition (in which he adopted the metrical form of the epode or "iambic distich"). He also wrote dactylic hexameters in conversational and epistolary style...

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Pierre; or, The Ambiguities
Minggu, 2026-05-17 16:00:14

each paragraph is a stanzaic pattern: in the first a distich and a tristich, in the second a distich and a tetrastich. The pattern becomes clear if the...

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Colon (rhetoric)
Selasa, 2025-09-23 15:26:55

terminology for the same concepts (cola = stich or hemistich, bicolon = distich, tricolon = tristich) are no longer used as often, but some newer synonyms...

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Bamba Sutherland
Selasa, 2026-05-12 00:39:33

Lahore Fort. It is known as the Princess Bamba Collection. The Persian distich on her gravestone has been translated as: The difference between royalty...

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Latin poetry
Rabu, 2025-07-09 02:50:09

tradition (in which he adopted the metrical form of the Epode or "Iambic Distich"). Horace was a contemporary of Virgil and, like the epic poet, he wrote...

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Metre (poetry)
Minggu, 2026-04-19 07:29:42

dactylic pentameter follows a line of dactylic hexameter in the elegiac distich or elegiac couplet, a form of verse that was used for the composition of...

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Ancient literature
Senin, 2026-04-13 15:54:02

Ruan Ji Zuo Si Pan Yue Greek: Plotinus: Enneads Latin: see Late Latin Distichs of Cato Hebrew: Mishnah Pali (Sri Lanka): Dīpavaṃsa Latin: see Late Latin...

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Isopsephy
Selasa, 2026-05-19 07:50:15

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...

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Martin Codax
Kamis, 2025-12-18 10:45:00

cantigas d'amigo who used only the archaic strophic form aaB (a rhymed distich followed by a refrain). He employed an archaic rhyme scheme whereby i~o...

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Couplet (disambiguation)
Rabu, 2024-05-08 01:47:17

Look up couplet, couplets, or distich in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A couplet is a pair of lines in verse. Couplet may also refer to: Couplets (cabaret)...

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Traditional Welsh poetic metres
Kamis, 2026-06-04 19:34:50

Cywydd deuair hirion: see Cywydd ("Long double distich") Cywydd deuair fyrion ("Short double distich") Cywydd llosgyrnog ("Tailed") Awdl gywydd ("Multi-rhythm")...

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Gualterus Anglicus
Senin, 2024-04-22 18:19:14

Anglo-Norman poet and scribe who produced a seminal version of Aesop's Fables (in distichs) around the year 1175. This author was earlier called the Anonymus Neveleti...

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Mahmud of Ghazni
Selasa, 2026-05-26 13:14:15

According to historians, Mahmud had promised Ferdowsi a dinar for every distich written in the Shahnameh (which would have been 60,000 dinars), but later...

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The Dream of the Rood
Jumat, 2026-03-27 07:44:53

the ten silver strips lining the cross's narrow sides contain a verse distich and prose sentence: Cross is my name. Once, shaking, I carried a powerful...

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Daphitas
Senin, 2025-12-08 11:11:50

was crucified on Mount Thorax (Θώραξ) near Magnesia after composing a distich that insulted the kings. Strabo also writes that an oracle had warned Daphitas...

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Strophe
Selasa, 2026-01-06 12:12:30

Latin verse. The briefest and the most ancient strophe is the dactylic distich, which consists of two verses of the same class of rhythm, the second producing...

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Nizami Ganjavi
Rabu, 2026-05-06 03:50:54

Shah Tahmasp I. The ethico-philosophical poems of about 2,250 Persian distichs were dedicated to Fakhr al-Din Bahramshah, the ruler of Erzinjan. The story...

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Unsuri
Senin, 2025-12-22 13:09:46

(King of Poets) under Mahmud. His Divan is said to have contained 30,000 distichs, of which only 2500 remain today. It includes the romance epic Vamiq u...

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Aram (Kural book)
Jumat, 2025-05-02 12:01:46

authored by the ancient Indian philosopher Valluvar. Written in High Tamil distich form, it has 38 chapters each containing 10 kurals or couplets, making...

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Xenien
Jumat, 2025-07-18 16:19:58

Following this precedent, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe named a collection of distichs, which he wrote together with Friedrich Schiller, Die Xenien, in which...

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Otto Grote zu Schauen
Kamis, 2025-06-12 13:38:10

Distich from Leibniz (in Latin)...

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Epode
Jumat, 2025-10-03 10:36:37

in Latin literature, and that he was imitating the effect of the iambic distichs invented by Archilochus. Accordingly, the first ten of these epodes are...

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Nyctimene (mythology)
Senin, 2026-02-02 07:26:26

Greece portal Ancient Rome portal Myrrha Harpalyce Philomela The Latin distich says: "Nyctimene is Minerva's nightly (fowl) for being wanton. Thence the...

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Inbam (Kural book)
Kamis, 2025-01-23 06:37:49

authored by the ancient Indian philosopher Valluvar. Written in High Tamil distich form, it has 25 chapters each containing 10 kurals or couplets, making...

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Ubba
Kamis, 2026-06-04 09:40:32

along the British coast to deter the Saxon invasions. According to the Distich on the Sons of Lothebrok, a series of notes preserved by the twelfth- to...

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Auctores octo morales
Kamis, 2026-01-29 12:45:25

standardised as: Distichs of Cato Eclogue of Theodulus Facetus: Liber Faceti docens mores iuvenum (Also believed to be by Cato of the Distichs) De contemptu...

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List of Latin phrases (A)
Selasa, 2026-04-21 13:04:58

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...

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William Byrd
Senin, 2026-05-25 16:28:29

gentleman Sir Edward Paston copied his music extensively. Dow included Latin distichs and quotations in praise of Byrd in his manuscript collection of music...

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Babio
Rabu, 2025-05-28 04:40:34

Latin is a 12th-century elegiac comedy consisting of 484 lines of elegiac distichs, the author and origin are unknown. It imitates Roman comedy and is indebted...

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Glossary of literary terms
Jumat, 2026-01-23 18:27:29

stronger stress. dirge discourse dissociation of sensibility dissonance distich distributed stress dithyramb diverbium The spoken dialogue in Roman drama...

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Porul (Kural book)
Minggu, 2025-05-25 18:09:23

authored by the ancient Indian philosopher Valluvar. Written in High Tamil distich form, it has 70 chapters each containing 10 kurals or couplets, making...

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The Well-Travelled Goat
Senin, 2026-01-12 13:31:05

Francis Wilkinson, and the lieutenant John Gore. It had a Latin poem, a distich, written for it by Samuel Johnson at the request of Joseph Banks, which...

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Parallelism (rhetoric)
Rabu, 2025-10-15 20:19:54

rhetorical device of Biblical poetry in the tristich and in multiples of distich parallels and also in the poetry of many other cultures around the world...

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National myth
Jumat, 2026-05-22 22:02:03

1010 CE and is the national epic of Persia. Consisting of some 50,000 distichs or couplets (two-line verses), the Shahnameh is one of the world's longest...

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Judeo-Persian
Senin, 2026-03-02 11:30:04

Shahin's Pentateuchal epic cycle consists of 10,000 metered couplet (distich) versification of the Books of Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy...

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The Miller's Tale
Minggu, 2026-02-01 00:38:05

the stained glass windows of Canterbury cathedral. Chaucer refers to the Distichs of Cato when discussing the age difference between Alison and her husband...

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Coat of arms of Paris
Sabtu, 2025-12-20 22:16:58

city of Paris. The motto originates as an abbreviation of a longer Latin distich, Niteris incassum navem submergere Petri / Fluctuat at numquam mergitur...

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Phemonoe
Kamis, 2025-10-16 10:12:15

her the first who used it, but in another passage he quotes an hexameter distich, which was ascribed to the Peleiades, who lived before Phemonoe: the traditions...

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Numeral (linguistics)
Kamis, 2026-05-14 01:57:58

single, singleton, unary, unit, unity 2 Two binary, brace, couple, couplet, distich, deuce, double, doubleton, duad, duality, duet, duo, dyad, pair, span,...

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Helius Eobanus Hessus
Selasa, 2026-05-05 08:50:39

Sylvae. His most popular works were translations of the Psalms into Latin distichs (which reached over fifty editions) and of the Iliad into hexameters. His...

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René-Charles Guilbert de Pixérécourt
Kamis, 2026-04-23 01:56:25

to add many rare books to his library, the great passion of his life. A distich inscribed above the door read: Tel est le triste sort de tout livre prêté:...

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Venus and Cupid with a Honeycomb
Selasa, 2025-12-30 11:11:54

theme of love and pain. The moralizing explanation is made explicit by the distich. The moralist Chelidonius emphasizes that voluptas (short-lived 'pleasures'...

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Kural
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 18:30:49

is used as a literary term to indicate "a metrical line of 2 feet, or a distich or couplet of short lines, the first of 4 and the second of 3 feet." Thus...

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List of Greek and Latin roots in English/P–Z
Kamis, 2025-06-19 11:02:45

row Greek στείχειν (steíkhein), στίχος (stíkhos) acrostic, cadastre, distich, distichous, haplostichous, hemistich, heptastich, monostich, monostichous...

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Findern Manuscript
Selasa, 2025-04-01 07:05:13

folio 165 62 181r-185v "Chaunge not thi ffreende that thou knowest of oolde" - Distichs of Cato Benedict Burgh (translator) 186-188 Folia are missing...

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Cato the Elder
Sabtu, 2026-05-23 17:14:47

translated from Greek. The two surviving collections of proverbs known as the Distichs of Cato and the Monosticha Catonis probably belong to the 4th century AD...

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Pontic Greek music
Minggu, 2026-06-07 07:53:08

response to the Greek genocide and the subsequent population exchange. Some distichs used in parakathi singing also center on the genocide: "Many Romiyi [Greeks]...

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John Trevanion
Selasa, 2026-01-27 13:38:37

seventeenth-century ode relating to four Cornish commanders included the distich: Gone the four wheels of Charles's wain, Grenville, Godolphin, Slanning...

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Old English Dicts of Cato
Senin, 2026-05-11 04:49:04

is the editorial name given to the Old English text based on the Latin Distichs of Cato. It is a collection of approximately 80 prose proverbs, the exact...

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Stranger, Bear Word to the Spartans We...
Minggu, 2025-05-25 16:56:08

Simonides, commemorating the heroic Battle of Thermopylae. In German, the full distich reads: Wanderer, kommst du nach Sparta, verkündige dorten, du habest Uns...

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Mukhammas
Selasa, 2023-12-05 08:30:26

in other performance-genres. The mukhammas represents a stanza of two distichs and a hemistich in monorhyme, the fifth line being the "bob" or burden:...

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Geoffrey IV, Count of Anjou
Senin, 2024-06-03 03:52:09

verse known as the Carmina Houghtoniensia (Poem 90). It is fifty elegiac distichs long. For an edition of the poem with translation, analysis and commentary...

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Chronogram
Sabtu, 2025-11-15 20:23:00

they are written in hexameter and chronodisticha if they are written in distich. In the ancient Indonesian Hindu-Buddhist tradition, especially in ancient...

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Elogium (literary genre)
Jumat, 2025-07-11 03:45:21

in saturnians, but later it could be in hexameters, iambic hexameters, distichs or in prose. Characteristic of the elogium is the nominative case used...

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Paphos
Rabu, 2026-05-06 17:02:03

5. § 2.) An Agapenor was mentioned as king of the Paphians in a Greek distich preserved in the Analecta; and Herodotus (vii. 90) alludes to an Arcadian...

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Monostich
Minggu, 2026-03-01 05:35:18

Single Line Poem” is a literary journal devoted solely to the monostich. Distich Micropoetry Monoku Tristich "monostich" – via The Free Dictionary. Hahn...

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Fable
Senin, 2026-06-08 18:54:33

England (12th century), Anglo-Norman poet, published Aesop's Fables in distichs c. 1175 Marie de France (12th century) Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhī (Persian...

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Planctus de obitu Karoli
Jumat, 2025-05-02 00:48:58

The poem is composed of twenty three-line romance strophes each with a distich of two dodecasyllables and the parenthetical heptasyllabic refrain Heu...

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Hrotsvitha
Rabu, 2026-05-06 17:33:35

written in Leonine hexameter except "Gongolph", which is written in rhymed distichs. "Theophilus" and "Basilius", are based on Latin translations of the vitae...

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Feltre
Jumat, 2026-05-29 15:04:37

from me too, who henceforth will scarcely approach you, Farewell!" The distich, given here as in Charles Stephens and Nicholas Lloyd, Dictionarium historicum...

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Aeolic verse
Senin, 2025-03-10 20:11:28

marked off in distichs Book IV (frr. 58 – 91) x – u u – – u u – – u u – u – – (^hipp2c, called aiolikon by Hephaestion), marked off in distichs; the book...

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Poeta Saxo
Rabu, 2026-01-07 10:59:24

Annales, the first four are in hexameters while the last is in elegiac distichs. The first critical edition of the Poeta's poem was G. H. Pertz, MGH SS...

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List of Greek and Latin roots in English/S
Kamis, 2026-02-26 09:52:43

row Greek στείχειν (steíkhein), στίχος (stíkhos) acrostic, cadastre, distich, distichous, haplostichous, hemistich, heptastich, monostich, monostichous...

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Makhzan ol-Asrar
Selasa, 2026-04-28 02:15:18

is a didactic and philosophical work consisting of about 2,250 Persian distichs. It was completed when Nizami was forty years old, and since then it has...

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Outline of poetry
Minggu, 2026-03-08 18:05:49

rhyme Rhyme Chant royal Ottava rima Rubaiyat 2-line stanza: couplet or distich 3-line stanza: triplet or tercet 4-line stanza: quatrain 5-line stanza:...

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Hunar-nama
Minggu, 2024-05-19 10:42:42

Hunar-nāma ('the book of excellence', also transliterated Honarnāme) is a 487-distich Persian mathnavī poem composed by ‘Uthmān Mukhtārī at Tabas in the period...

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Syriac sacral music
Kamis, 2026-04-30 16:08:12

illumine us with his resplendent light. It was preceded by the following distich, which forms the refrain: Light is arisen upon the just And joy for those...

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Adolphe Choler
Jumat, 2026-05-15 12:37:52

Carabas et la princesse Fanfreluche, tale by Perrault in 1 act, mixed with distichs, with Adolphe d'Ennery 1849: La paix du ménage, comédie en vaudevilles...

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Chapter Library of Verona
Rabu, 2026-01-07 05:18:18

Claudian's poems and the anonymous collections of maxims known as the Distichs of Cato, still in the Capitolare, and Livy's Ab urbe condita, now lost...

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Ezra-nama
Rabu, 2025-10-08 08:15:23

composed by the Judeo-Persian Shahin (fl. c. 1325). The work, which is of 500 distichs, is generally found at the end of Shahin's Ardashir-nama and is composed...

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Michel Verin
Selasa, 2024-04-02 09:27:19

publication was in 1481 at the age of 13. It was published under the title Moral Distichs which was a collection of Latin maxims reduced into a poetic form. This...

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Suleiman I of Persia
Kamis, 2026-05-14 21:02:27

Safavid history. After his second coronation, Suleiman issued coins with the distichs, "Soleymān banda-ye shāh-e velāyat" (Suleiman, the servant of the realm's...

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Hoop rolling
Senin, 2025-09-15 01:02:25

celeri volvitur orbe trochus." It was also presented as a virtue in the Distichs of Cato, which enjoin youth to "Trocho lude; aleam fuge" ("Play with the...

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Pont Notre-Dame
Sabtu, 2024-12-14 07:05:18

structure has remained the same since. Beneath one of the arches, there is a distich in Latin from Italian poet Jacopo Sannazaro, best known for his master-work...

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Barque of Saint Peter
Kamis, 2025-12-18 03:51:27

submerge the ship of Peter — this vessel rocks but is never submerged." This distich would inspire the motto of Paris and be featured on Paris' coat of arms...

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The Fox and the Sick Lion
Selasa, 2025-11-18 05:07:20

(Amsterdam, 1685). Above the woodcut illustrating the fable is the Dutch distich Een oud hoveling, een oud schoveling (an old courtier, an old survivor)...

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Samuel Croker-King
Rabu, 2024-10-16 03:18:30

Devonshire in England, and had been in the area for so long that a local distich reads that: "The Crokers, Crewys, and Coletons, When the Conqueror came...

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Anne Seymour, Countess of Warwick
Kamis, 2026-04-02 18:42:32

Denisot, Anne Seymour with her sisters Margaret and Jane composed 103 Latin distichs for the tomb of Marguerite de Navarre, which were published in France as...

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Mu'izzi
Rabu, 2026-03-11 10:59:41

own time and to later scholarship. His surviving divan extends to 18,000 distichs. Anvari accuses Mu'izzi of copying the verses of other poets (which cannot...

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Cato
Minggu, 2026-04-05 14:56:01

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...

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Abbas II of Persia
Sabtu, 2026-05-16 02:06:25

hair is light, almost blond. In his early years, Abbas II used the same distichs initiated by his great-grandfather, "Abbas banda-ye shāh-e velāyat" (Abbas...

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Liebesprobe
Rabu, 2025-12-24 03:04:17

before the 17th century the song appeared in some records in the form of a distich. A number of its versions are found in many later folklore collections...

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Hecatodistichon
Selasa, 2026-01-20 20:49:58

Navarre, sister of the French king and queen of Navarre. It comprised 104 distichs, or couplets. Hecato is a prefix from the Greek word for "hundred". The...

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Lady Jane Seymour
Kamis, 2026-04-02 18:41:56

together, with their most famous work being a collection of 103 Latin distichs, Hecatodistichon, for the tomb of Margaret of Valois, queen of Navarre...

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Poetry of Sappho
Minggu, 2026-06-07 01:43:23

glyconics with double dactylic expansion in distichs; for book 3, glyconics with double choriambic expansion in distichs. x x - u u - - u u - - u u - u - - No...

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Eli Siegel
Jumat, 2026-06-05 06:18:23

Tell This to Mothers". "Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana". "Twenty-One Distichs about Children". "Hymn to Jazz and the Like". "Eagles Go with the Fine...

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Polypodium cambricum
Rabu, 2026-05-20 04:01:04

elongate, often above ground, densely covered with rusty scales. Fronds distich, 5–30 centimetres (2.0–11.8 in), glabrous, deltoid in outline; petiole...

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Loeb Classical Library
Jumat, 2026-05-22 08:11:45

Poets: Volume II. Florus. Hadrian. Nemesianus. Reposianus. Tiberianus. Distichs of Cato. Phoenix. Avianus. Rutilius Claudius Namatianus. Others L060) Volume...

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Political verse
Minggu, 2026-03-29 18:27:42

effect. Each fifteen-syllable verse can be regarded or examined as a "distich" of two verses, one eight-syllable and one seven-syllable. Its form looks...

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Abraham Hartwell (the elder)
Sabtu, 2025-02-01 12:49:16

Osorius's 'Pearl'), and a preface dated Cambridge, 27 May 1565, besides some distichs of Latin verse. Nearly a hundred lines of elegiacs in memory of Paul Fagius...

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History of Tamil Nadu
Minggu, 2026-03-15 19:23:16

author of Tirukkural is not known with any certainty. This work of 1330 distichs is attributed to Tiruvalluvar, who was probably a Jain with knowledge of...

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Quilichinus of Spoleto
Rabu, 2026-02-04 14:27:07

is the Latin poem Alexandreis (or Historia Alexandri Magni) in elegiac distichs. It is based on the J3 recension of the Latin Alexander Romance, a collection...

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Maximianus (poet)
Rabu, 2026-02-04 22:07:17

the most attention among Renaissance scholars. Gauricus, suppressing the distich in which the name Maximianus appears and altering the reference to Boethius...

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Life of William Shakespeare
Rabu, 2026-04-08 19:22:14

translation into Latin of sentences dictated by the usher, drawn from the Distichs of Cato or other collections of Latin aphorisms, followed by memorisation...

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Robert Whitehall
Sabtu, 2026-03-07 10:07:08

Subsequent development of this reply converted it into an indifferent distich: My name's Whitehall, God bless the poet; If I submit the king shall know...

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King Aroo
Senin, 2025-06-16 21:50:31

Elephant, so forgetful he doesn't recall himself; nosy court poet Dipody Distich, Drexel the dragon and Wanda Witch, a bird who pushes a cart marked with...

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Stone of Terpon
Sabtu, 2025-10-04 09:28:36

σεμνῆς Ἀφροδίτης Τοῖς δὲ καταστήσασι Κύπρις χάριν ἀνταποδοίη. It forms a distich in dactylic hexameter: The inscription can be roughly translated as: "I...

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Juventinus Albius Ovidius
Sabtu, 2023-10-21 04:32:42

Juventinus Albius Ovidius was the name of the author of thirty-five distichs titled Elegia de Philomela, containing a collection of those words which are...

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Tamil literature
Minggu, 2026-06-07 20:23:25

manual of ethics, polity and love, containing 1,330 distichs or kural divided into chapters of ten distichs each: the first thirty-eight on ethics, the next...

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Kowniyanar
Sabtu, 2025-05-31 00:57:46

Tiruvalluva Maalai. He opines about Valluvar and the Kural text thus: The short distichs which the learned poet Valluvar has composed in order that we may know...

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Liber epigrammatum
Rabu, 2025-09-03 14:06:52

hexametrical text from Isidore's Versus de bibliotheca (f. 4v) and an elegiac distich captioning a miniature of Ezra (f. 5r) Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana...

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Glossary of Sikhism
Senin, 2025-07-21 10:35:52

Sanskrit epic metre formed of thirty-two syllables: verses of two lines (distich) of sixteen syllables each or in four half-lines (hemistich) of each syllables...

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Richard of Wendover
Selasa, 2026-02-24 15:21:14

others Quinque attenduntur generalia. All copies seem to have prefixed a distich of which the first line is: "Qui cupit urinas mea per compendia scire"...

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Colard Mansion
Sabtu, 2025-07-26 22:51:15

Metamorphose was published repeatedly between 1532 and 1570. Unknown date: the Distichs of Cato Les Evangiles des quenouilles (anonymous, circa 1480) La doctrine...

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Dominical letter
Sabtu, 2026-05-23 14:24:00

and F to 1 December – a result which Durandus recalled by the following distich: Alta Domat Dominus, Gratis Beat Equa Gerentes Contemnit Fictos, Augebit...

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Old English Boethius
Selasa, 2025-12-23 23:09:01

Chronicle and William of Malmesbury. It influenced Ælfric, the Old English Distichs of Cato, and even Nicholas Trevet's commentary on the Consolatio of c....

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The Bear and the Bees
Jumat, 2026-05-15 04:26:10

his Symbolorum et Emblematum Centuriae Quatuor (1595). The accompanying distich warns that violence brings ill to its author and Camerarius goes on to...

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Smaragdus of Saint-Mihiel
Selasa, 2025-11-11 08:52:14

first has twenty-nine lines in hexameter, and the second thirty-seven distichs. Text taken from Philip Schaff, History of the Christian Church, Volume...

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Cronaca Bizantina
Kamis, 2026-05-28 16:48:43

rather than mighty ancient Rome. The inaugural issue featured an elegiac distich by Carducci on the front page, praising ancient verse metres. Besides Carducci...

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John Bury (translator)
Senin, 2022-05-02 22:01:18

the printer William Copland, paired with Benedict Burgh's version of the Distichs of Cato. "Bury, John (BRY524J)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University...

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Zaratosht-nama
Minggu, 2026-01-04 14:00:27

copier of the first surviving manuscript of the work. The poem contains 600 distichs and is composed in the same meter as Shahnameh of Ferdowsi. The work is...

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Early Christian inscriptions
Jumat, 2026-05-22 18:26:32

the basilica of Nola and the church at Primuliacum in Gaul bore the same distich: Pax tibi sit quicunque Dei penetralia Christi, pectore pacifico candidus...

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Henry, Margrave of the Franks
Jumat, 2025-11-14 01:11:59

that Henry was buried in the Abbey of Saint-Médard de Soissons. An eight-distich epitaph for Henry was added by an eleventh-century hand to a copy of Regino's...

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Covenantal theology (Catholic Church)
Minggu, 2026-04-05 18:51:35

Theological Fragments, San Francisco: Ignatius Press. ——— (1984b), "On an Old Distich: The Doctrine of the 'Fourfold Sense' in Scripture", Theological Fragments...

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Lamiyyat al-'Arab
Sabtu, 2026-02-14 02:33:27

goats (65-68). A good example of the poem's style and tone is provided by distichs 5-7 (3–5 in some editions). The original text: وَلِي دُونَكُمْ أَهْلُونَ...

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Kadi Burhan al-Din
Rabu, 2026-05-27 16:20:37

Azerbaijani poetry. His diwan comprises 1,500 ghazals, 119 tuyughs, and a few distichs. According to Jan Rypka, he was "a poet of profane love; mystical notes...

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Anglo-Norman literature
Sabtu, 2026-03-14 06:43:46

(cf. Beyer, Zt. f. rom. Phil. xi. 513-534; xii. 1-56); Disticha Catonis (Distichs of Cato), translated by Everard de Kirkham and Elie de Winchester (Stengel...

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Kathasaritsagara
Minggu, 2026-05-10 20:48:42

taramgas (chapters called as "waves") and approximately 22,000 ślokas (distichs) in addition to prose sections. The śloka consists of 2 half-verses of...

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Baldo of Salzburg
Selasa, 2025-04-29 20:48:36

Salzburg 174), containing Adomnán's De locis sanctis, was copied for him. A distich on the flyleaf of reads: Hunc humilis librum fecit perscribere Baldo ('Baldo...

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George Daniel (writer)
Senin, 2026-03-02 09:00:23

republished separately in 1828. A prose novel in three volumes called Dick Distich, which Daniel says he wrote when he was eighteen, was printed anonymously...

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Step by Step Up to Union With God
Senin, 2024-12-02 04:45:13

simple, fluent and common sense. The title of the book is taken from a distich from the section called "Books 3" from "Masnavi" written by "Rumi": از...

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Marthae Marchinae Virginis Neapolitanae Musa Postuma
Senin, 2026-01-12 05:28:16

a recurring theme of a woman superseding a man's role. This poem is a distich addressed to the Virgin Mary. Marchina uses this style of writing to unpack...

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Angelus Silesius
Jumat, 2026-06-05 01:42:28

Britannica Eleventh Edition identifies these epigrams as Reimsprüche—or rhymed distichs—and describes them as: ...embodying a strange mystical pantheism drawn...

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Charles Christian Reisen
Rabu, 2025-12-03 12:53:44

Thornhill drew an extempore profile of him, and Matthew Prior added the distich: This, drawn by candle light and hazard, Was meant to show Charles Christian's...

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Chèo
Jumat, 2025-12-12 05:17:01

verses, stanzas, or folk songs with a very liberal, free-flowing eight-word distich metre lyrical form. Chèo also uses traditional Vietnamese poetry verses...

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Julius Caesar Scaliger
Jumat, 2026-03-06 05:30:27

belonging to the family Apiaceae and named in Julius Caesar Scaliger's honour. Distichs of Cato Nostradamus (1994 film) Christie & Sandys 1911, p. 283. Richard...

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Februarius
Rabu, 2026-01-14 04:57:16

Intercalaris. This image preserves only the hexameter line of the Latin distich, which reads in full: umbrarum est alter, quo mense putatur honore / pervia...

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Christian views on the classics
Rabu, 2026-03-04 23:45:44

frequently read, e.g. Homerus latinus (Ilias Latina), Dictys, Dares, the distichs ascribed to Cato. Cicero is almost overlooked, and two distinct personages...

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First Grammatical Treatise
Kamis, 2026-01-29 12:57:08

Latin terms "capitulum" and "vers", as well as a quotation from Cato's Distichs, suggests he received a Latin education. However, he was also well-versed...

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Peqin Clock Tower
Sabtu, 2026-05-09 03:59:34

positioned above the mosque’s second gate. The verses, arranged in seven distichs (AA, BA, CA…), cover the two plaques, with Quranic verses inscribed in...

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Thomas of Capua
Minggu, 2025-09-21 00:44:39

Francis of Assisi and Mary, mother of Jesus. He also penned a satirical distich about Rome. He wrote two treatises on writing in the ars dictaminis tradition...

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James Wright (antiquarian)
Rabu, 2025-10-29 00:58:49

England can boast of—a Dugdale and a Shakespeare." Anthony Wood cites a distich of an elegy written by Wright upon John Goad. Hearne, who respected Wright...

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Phaedrus (fabulist)
Kamis, 2026-01-22 22:53:17

editorial interventions. Herrmann also attributed the Apocolocyntosis, the Distichs of Cato, and most of the Culex to Phaedrus and sifted these texts for further...

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Frederic Nausea
Minggu, 2025-03-16 06:45:42

Acta genuina Conc. Trid., I, Zagreb, 1874, 652). Among his writings are: Distichs on the works of Lactantius; Ars Poetica; sermons and homilies on evangelical...

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Early life of John Milton
Kamis, 2025-11-27 11:33:46

became Milton's guide through Naples and gifted Milton with books and a distich that teases Milton through Gregory the Great's pun on "Angle" and "angel"...

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1796 in poetry
Jumat, 2024-06-28 02:28:29

resulted Tabulae votivae, 124 "tame" distichs organized into 103 tabulae Vielen, 18 "tame" distichs Einer, 19 "tame" distichs presented as a single, continuous...

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Ottavio Tronsarelli
Minggu, 2025-03-16 04:37:48

Baglione's Lives of the painters, sculptors, architects, including the 22 Latin distichs that preface the work. He was the author of several antiquarian works,...

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Thematic focus of Robert Browning's poetic work
Kamis, 2026-05-07 10:08:08

Desmarest proposed to replace his lengthy paraphrase with the following distich: "Tantalus in a river is thirsty and cannot drink; / You laugh, change...

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Buíte of Monasterboice
Senin, 2026-05-11 09:41:55

the burial-place of Saint Buíte. The Annals have preserved the following distich referring to him: Let Buíte, the virtuous judge of fame, come each day...

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Stephen Weston (antiquary)
Jumat, 2026-03-06 12:57:21

Secundus, 1812; reissued as Persian Recreations: or New Tales, 1812. Persian Distichs from Various Authors, 1814. Fan-hy-cheu: a Tale in Chinese and English...

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Alaeddin Tabrizi
Senin, 2024-11-11 20:53:05

cities Tabriz, Qazvin, and Karbala. A part of an Arabic bait (a couplet/distich) by Farazdaq in praise of Ali ibn Husayn (Zayn al-Abidin): یَکَادُ یُمْسِکُهُ...

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Rocchetta Mattei
Jumat, 2026-05-29 16:00:42

of his “new medicine” over traditional medicine, accompanied by Latin distichs composed by the abbot Giordan. Because of its labyrinthine spatial sequence...

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The Great History of Troy tapestries (Painted Chamber, Westminster Palace)
Senin, 2026-01-05 10:13:25

tapestries had French verses running in a label along the top, and Latin distichs below. Few, if any, now have preserved more than fragments of these legends...

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Outline of Sikhism
Kamis, 2026-05-07 06:46:20

'stanza'; the Sanskrit epic metre formed of 32 syllables: verses of 2 lines (distich) of 16 syllables each or in 4 half-lines (hemistich) of 8 syllables each...

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Colliery viewer
Sabtu, 2026-04-04 23:42:55

than any other living follower of the art of mining engineering" "The old distich of the northern coalfield 'Trapper, Trimmer, Hewer, Under-Overman, and...

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Rhythmical office
Minggu, 2025-01-05 20:11:30

Vitœ were frequently composed in hexameters or distichs. From them various couples of hexameters or a distich were taken to be used as antiphon or response...

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Cathedral School of Vilnius
Senin, 2026-03-09 10:03:29

dialectics, classical literature, arithmetic, music. The students studied Distichs of Cato and Ars grammatica by Aelius Donatus. In 1539, the school had twelve...

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List of Classical Colloquia
Sabtu, 2026-03-07 15:02:46

schools for three centuries after his time. 1533 (?) Maturinus Corderius Distichs of Cato "The Cato" ; Catonis Disticha ; Disticha de moribus nomine Catonis...

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Jack Juggler
Senin, 2025-07-14 23:39:12

meant trickster. The prologue begins with a Latin quotation from the Distichs of Cato which it translates as, "Among thy careful business, use sometimes...

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Esperanto culture
Jumat, 2026-05-29 23:49:54

1896) are also very famous and often quoted in whole or in part; some distichs of La vojo, in particular, have become proverbial (e.g. Eĉ guto malgranda...

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Alexander Macomb (general)
Senin, 2026-04-06 15:12:38

decorating the rooms with evergreens, in his ready way gave the impromptu distich: Honor to Farley, glory to Macomb, / One cut the bushes, the other swept...

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Hazaj meter
Jumat, 2025-11-21 02:32:58

basic rhyme unit of hazaj meter compositions is a closed couplet—a bayt "distich" (literally "tent")—of two hemistichs known as miṣrāʿs ("tent flaps")....

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1735 in poetry
Jumat, 2024-06-28 02:32:10

acknowledges authorship of An Essay on Man. James Logan, ' 'Cato's Moral Distichs' ', a verse translation, printed by Benjamin Franklin, who calls it the...

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Unsinnsgesellschaft
Minggu, 2025-07-27 01:00:00

political events, parodies of classics as well as a comic epyllion in elegiac distichs (Die Unsinniade by Joseph Kupelwieser). By means of partly crude jokes...

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Sikh coinage
Kamis, 2026-03-26 03:32:33

there are coins in existence on one side of which is the old Sikh coin distich and on the other the Najibabad mint name and mark. One coin of this kind...

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The Proverbs of Alfred
Senin, 2026-01-26 06:45:17

Alfred, 1: A study of the texts. Lund and London, 1942. Arngart, Olaf. The Distichs of Cato and the Proverbs of Alfred. Lund, 1952. Arngart, Olaf (ed. and...

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Byzantine literature of the Laskaris and Palaiologos periods
Kamis, 2025-07-10 19:40:51

Byzantine culture by introducing several Latin works. Planudes translated The Distichs of Cato, Cicero's Dream of Scipio, Julius Caesar's Gallic Wars, Ovid's...

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Western esotericism and arts
Kamis, 2025-12-04 18:09:27

three voices—two corresponding to a single simple melody fit to be sung to distichs—to be seen, read, meditated upon, understood, judged, sung, and heard.”...

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Tragoudia Gia Tous Mines
Senin, 2026-06-08 01:56:12

"Ταξίμι" - Achilleas Persides in solo laouto "Lianotragoudo" - Demotic distich song - "Λιανοτράγουδο" - Lyrics by Michalis Ganas "Sou To' Pa Gia Ta Syneffa"...

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Faramarz-nama
Kamis, 2025-01-02 04:22:43

a known book in 464 pages and containing between nine and ten thousand distichs. It was printed in Bombay in 1906 by the Zoroastrian scholar named Rostam...

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Handsome Nell
Rabu, 2026-03-04 20:09:25

favorable an eye; I am determined to criticise them myself." The first distich* of the first stanza is quite too much in the flimsy strain of ordinary...

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The Durham Proverbs
Senin, 2024-12-23 07:53:47

Verlag. pp. 293–311. ISBN 978-3-8233-4273-1. Shippey, T. A. (1989). The Distichs of Cato and the Durham Proverbs — a Comparison. Fourth conference of the...

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Arator
Rabu, 2025-12-10 20:56:08

curriculum texts only in the 12th century. Arator also wrote two addresses in distichs to the Abbot Florianus and to Vigilius, as well as a letter to Parthenius...

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Tail rhyme
Minggu, 2025-12-28 01:39:58

Becket, in A A B A A B {\displaystyle \mathrm {AABAAB} } stanzas. The Distichs of Cato were translated into Anglo-Norman tail rhyme verse twice, independently...

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Richard Baker (chronicler)
Senin, 2026-02-16 00:24:55

value is very slight. Baker also wrote Cato Variegatus or Catoes Morall Distichs, Translated and Paraphrased by Sir Richard Baker, Knight (London, 1636);...

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Gotthilf Weisstein
Jumat, 2024-10-25 19:37:47

age of 55. He was buried in the Weißensee cemetery. On his grave is the distich: Many were delighted by your spirit and your always cheerful speech. You...

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Odes 1.4
Sabtu, 2026-05-23 05:12:12

4 is in the Third/Fourth Archilochian, in which the first line of each distich (couplet) is in the greater Archilochian (an asynartete [it] combination...

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Lionel Gatford (priest, died 1665)
Sabtu, 2024-04-27 00:18:29

civil war to John Walker's Sufferings of the Clergy. Gatford has a Greek distich in Ralph Winterton's Hippocratis Aphorismi. An Exhortation to Peace: with...

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Corderius
Selasa, 2026-05-05 03:59:18

printer Jean Frellon. These translations were anonymous, just like his Distichs of Cato. Michael de Villeneuve had to be careful, for Corderius and the...

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Reza-Qoli Khan Hedayat
Rabu, 2025-07-02 05:40:11

al-ṣafā-ye nāṣeri (on history) He also wrote a Divan containing 50,000 distichs and six Mathnawis. Losensky 2003, pp. 119–121. Granmayeh, Ali (June 1996)...

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Virgilius Maro Grammaticus
Kamis, 2025-10-16 23:09:48

source he used is uncertain. The best known in his time may have been the Distichs of Cato, often called simply Cato), three Virgils, three Vulcans, Aeneas...

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Northumberland Bestiary
Jumat, 2026-02-20 21:57:27

loves his word." The pen trails begin in about 1500 and they include a distich warning clergymen to stay away from women, a partial document naming justice...

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Edmund Waller
Rabu, 2026-04-22 20:14:43

easily an art; first showed us how to conclude the sense, most commonly in distichs, which, in the verse of those before him, runs on for so many lines together...

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Deidamia Achilli
Minggu, 2026-06-07 08:02:33

Deidamia Achilli is an anonymous 11th-century Latin poem of 65 elegiac distichs in the form of a letter from Deidamia to her husband Achilles, set about...

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Robert Vilvain
Jumat, 2026-03-06 12:40:55

20 May 1651 (Boase, Exeter College Commoners, p. 338). Ten ‘epicedial distichs’ composed on his death are in the father's ‘Enchiridium Epigrammatum,’...

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Zu'l-Fiqar Shirvani
Rabu, 2026-05-20 04:51:17

two opening verses), certain words can be strung together to form new distichs (abyat) with different meters. Also transliterated as "Zo'l Faqar Shirvani"...

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Ovidia gens
Kamis, 2026-04-09 09:54:30

Juventinus, the author of Elegia de Philomela, a poem consisting of thirty-five distichs describing the sounds made by various animals. He may have lived at the...

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Thomas Langley (priest)
Selasa, 2025-11-18 02:53:55

praise of the author and his work by Thomas Langleius. The second is a mere distich, but the first is more substantial, even if it is mainly a list of some...

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Sammelband
Rabu, 2025-07-30 00:57:02

within appear as follows: John Lydgate, Stans ad Mensam Burgh, Cato’s Distichs John Lydgate, The Churl and the Bird (2nd edn) John Lydgate, Horse Goose...

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Aisha Bibi
Kamis, 2026-04-02 15:07:40

describe the beauty of Aisha Bibi and of love in general. One of the old distichs reads: "Autumn... Clouds... The Earth is beautiful". Sauran clay was used...

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Charles Hoole
Minggu, 2025-03-23 10:07:17

disticha de Moribus, with Dicta septem sapientum Græciæ, 1659. From the Distichs of Cato. Comenius, Johann Amos (1887). Bardeen, Charles William (ed.)....

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Joachim von Bassewitz (administrator)
Rabu, 2026-01-21 18:41:11

also addressed the ailments of advancing age. In 1592, Mylius wrote four distichs against a contemporary who had criticized some of Joachim von Bassewitz's...

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List of English translations from medieval sources: C
Kamis, 2026-06-04 00:06:15

Bourassé (1813–1872). Catonis disticha. The Catonis disticha, also known as Distichs of Cato or simply Cato, (3rd or 4th century), is a Latin collection of...

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Riccobaldo of Ferrara
Selasa, 2026-03-03 00:26:44

(Rhetoric for Herennius), among other works. Additional sources include the Distichs of Cato (Catonis Disticha), Einhard, Hegesippus, Horace, certain texts...

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Benjamin Aubery du Maurier
Rabu, 2026-01-14 21:03:50

from Grotius) in the place where he was born. Grotius wrote the following distich on his picture: Docta tabella, refers hominem, qui rectius ipse/ Magnanimum...

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Clement Barksdale
Rabu, 2022-11-02 00:10:47

Old Gentleman's Wish, 1684 Of Authors and Books, 1684 Century of Sacred Distichs, or Religion in Verse,(this was Religion in Verse enlarged) Grateful Mention...

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Ubertino Posculo
Minggu, 2025-12-28 20:06:30

work continued to see revisions and additions in the form of prefatory distichs and a letter well into the 1480s. It was one among several literary projects...

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