distich
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Somnus ut sit levis, sit tibi cœna brevis, is the ancient axiom of our distich, That your sleep may be light, Let your supper be slight.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)
In the model distich quoted by Coleridge— "In the hexameter rises the fountain's silvery column, In the pentameter still falling in melody back;" the pentameter is a better verse than the hexameter.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 by Various
It gave rise to a taunting distich similar to the one at Arlesey.
From Literary Byways by Andrews, William
The distich "Nostra damus," &c. was the playful composition, according to La Monnoye, of the celebrated Genevan reformer Th�odore de B�ze.
Hence such sayings as the "Tota jacet Babylon" of the distich.
From An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine by Newman, John Henry Cardinal
