distich

• The next verse is extremely beautiful Blest satirist In this distich is another line of which Pope was not the author. —  The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II
• A war is undertaken for an epigram or a distich, as in Europe for a duchy. —  Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám and Salámán and Absál Together With A Life Of Edward Fitzgerald And An Essay On Persian Poetry By Ralph Waldo Emerson
• ', Met V 559 'optastis facilesque deos habuistis', Tr IV i 53 'sint precor hae [the Muses] saltem faciles mihi', EP II ii 19-20 'esse ... fateor ... difficilem precibus te quoque iure meis', Her XVI 282 'sic habeas faciles in tua uota deos_', and Grattius 426 31-32.= The asyndeton in this distich is odd, given the preceding series of connectives. —  The Last Poems of Ovid
• SCRIPTA FERVNT ANNOS.= The phrase completes the sentence begun in the previous distich, as is shown by the parallel passages Am I x 61-62 'scindentur uestes, gemmae frangentur et aurum; / carmina quam tribuent, fama perennis erit_' and Am I xv 31-32 'ergo cum silices, cum dens patientis aratri / depereant aeuo, carmina morte carent 51. —  The Last Poems of Ovid
• If the distich is excised (as Professor R. J. Tarrant suggests) 113-14 round out the paragraph that began with 105 (note the correspondence of uidet hospita terra in 105 with testis Pontica terra in 114), and 117 introduces hospites as a second class of witnesses 118. —  The Last Poems of Ovid

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