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δίστιχος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: δίστιχος

Structure: διστιχ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. of two verses
  2. a distich

Examples

  • "διόπερ τὸ δίστιχον ἀπαρκεῖ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 19 3:18)
  • τῇ δὲ ἐπιούσῃ ἐλθὼν πρὸσ Ὅμηρον τὸν ποιητὴν ἐδεήθην αὐτοῦ ποιῆσαί μοι δίστιχον ἐπίγραμμα· (Lucian, Verae Historiae, book 2 28:5)
  • πάγκαλὸν ἐστ’ ἐπίγραμμα τὸ δίστιχον ἢν δὲ παρέλθῃσ τοὺσ τρεῖσ, ῥαψῳδεῖσ, κοὐκ ἐπίγραμμα λέγεισ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 3691)
  • τήνδε Λεωνίδεω θαλερὴν πάλι δέρκεο Μοῦσαν, δίστιχον εὐθίκτου παίγνιον εὐεπίησ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 6, chapter 3221)

Synonyms

  1. of two verses

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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