distichus

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

distĭchus, a, um, adj., = δίστιχος, consisting of two rows.

I Adj. : hordeum, Col. 2, 9, 16.—

II Subst.

Adistĭchum , i, n., a building with two stories or two rows of chambers , Inscr. Fabr. p. 627, no. 234.—

B distĭchon , i, n., a poem of two verses , a distich consisting of a hexameter and a pentameter, Mart. 8, 29, 1; Suet. Caes. 51; id. Oth. 3 al.