distich

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A like popular distich about this later visitation is quoted by Adam of Murimuth: C ter erant mille decies sex unus, et ille, Luce tua Maure, vehemens fuit impetus aur�.

From Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely by Conybeare, Edward

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

Various have been the remedial means proposed in this terrific malady, and preservatives against it have been recorded in the following distich: Hæc tria labificum tollunt adverbia pestem; Mox, longè, tardè,—cede, recede, redi.

From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)

I recall from one of these a distich of some merit.

From Reminiscences, 1819-1899 by Howe, Julia Ward

It gave rise to a taunting distich similar to the one at Arlesey.

From Literary Byways by Andrews, William