Of the five books of the 2, 691-line " Annales ", the first four are in hexameters while the last is in elegiac distichs.
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Thus a collection of two lines is a couplet ( or distich ), three lines a triplet ( or tercet ), four lines a quatrain, and so on.
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Manso became Milton's guide through Naples and gifted Milton with books and a distich that teases Milton through Gregory the Great's pun on " Angle " and " angel " when describing the English.
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Following this precedent, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe named a collection of distichs, which he wrote together with Friedrich Schiller, " Die Xenien ", in which the two friends avenged themselves on opposing critics.
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Hazlitt doubtfully attributes to Wright a volume of translations entitled'Sales Epigrammatum : Being the choycest Distichs of Martials Fourteen Books of Epigrams & of all the Chief Latin Poets that have writ in these two last Centuries.
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He says in the course of these poems, that in composing them he was introducing a new form, at least in Latin literature, and that he was imitating the effect of the iambic distichs invented by Archilochus.
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The two surviving collections of proverbs known as " Distichs of Cato " and " Monosticha Catonis ", in hexameter verse, probably belong to the 4th century AD . They are not really by Cato.
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The distichs, in their collected form, are arranged, not in any sequence of narrative or dialogue, but according to the technical classification of the sentiments which they convey as set forth in the treatises on Indian rhetoric.
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Gauricus, suppressing the distich in which the name Maximianus appears and altering the reference to Boethius, published the verse as the work of the first-century-BC poet Cornelius Gallus, whose elegies were thought to be entirely lost.
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We can add the " Distichs of Cato " ( " Catonis Disticha " ), Einhard, Dominican Vincent of Beauvais, and the manuscripts of the Abbey of Santa Giustina in Padua, without excluding others still.
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