disticho
Dictionary entries
- Entry →distichus, disticha, distichum:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Very Rare
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Field:
- Poetry
consisting of two lines (verse); having two longitudinal rows of grain;
abl. sg. (m.)abl. sg. (n.)dat. sg. (m.)dat. sg. (n.) - Entry →distich:
Adjective
- Frequency:
- Uncommon
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Field:
- Poetry
consisting of two lines (verse); having two longitudinal rows of grain;
abl. sg. (m./f.)dat. sg. (m./f.) - Entry →distich:
Adjective
- Frequency:
- Uncommon
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Field:
- Poetry
consisting of two lines (verse); having two longitudinal rows of grain;
abl. sg. (n.)dat. sg. (n.) - Entry →distichon, distichi:
Neuter · Noun
- Frequency:
- Uncommon
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Field:
- Poetry
couplet, two line poem/verse;
abl. sg.dat. sg.
Examples
Otho
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius) from DE VITIS CAESARUM
"...mimum omnem divulgaret, qui tamen sic quoque hoc disticho enotuit: Cur Otho mentito sit, quaeritis, exul honore? Vxoris..."Divus Iulius
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius) from DE VITIS CAESARUM
"...conciliare. Ne provincialibus quidem matrimoniis abstinuisse vel hoc disticho apparet iactato aeque a militibus per Gallicum triumphum: Urbani..."
