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Ossa eius Neapolim translata sunt tumuloque condita ... in quo distichon fecit tale:
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills
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(Prokeimenon tou apostolou -- "placed before", understand distichon) facing the altar.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913
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If of the instability of friends, thou hast at hand Cato freely offering his distichon, Donec eris foelix multos numerabis amicos; Tempora si fuerint nubila, solus eris.
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Occurrit primum distichon apud Aristopha - nem 'Eigyjv.
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‘distichon’ (Holland) ‘distich’; ‘hemistichion’ (North) ‘hemistich’;
English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846
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_] So that it will be true, that hath neuer béene false, which Æneas Syluius (and before him many more driuing vpon the like argument) dooth saie in this distichon:
Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (4 of 12) Stephan Earle Of Bullongne Raphael Holinshed
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