Definition of "distich" [dis•tich]

• A unit of verse consisting of two lines, especially as used in Greek and Latin elegiac poetry. (noun)
• A rhyming couplet. (noun)

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• "I am not certain that the distich is a simple interpolation, since there is nothing in the context to which it is an obvious gloss."