| 11. | The " Distichs of Cato " was most commonly referred to as simply " Cato ".
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| 12. | In a passage about the early history of Augsburg it references four distichs from locations around the city.
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| 13. | According to Ferdowsi, the final edition of the " Shahnameh " contained some sixty thousand distichs.
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| 14. | From them various couples of hexameters or a distich were taken to be used as antiphon or response respectively.
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| 15. | It has been argued that Licinianus might be the original author of the " Distichs of Cato ".
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| 16. | The final syllable of every distich rhymes throughout the whole poem; a long poem might comprise a hundred distichs.
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| 17. | The final syllable of every distich rhymes throughout the whole poem; a long poem might comprise a hundred distichs.
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| 18. | But this is a round figure; most of the relatively reliable manuscripts have preserved a little over fifty thousand distichs.
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| 19. | Many of the ethical reflections of the great dramatists, and in particular of Sophocles and Euripides, are gnomic distiches expanded.
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| 20. | The work consists of 18 books of 124 chapters and approximately 22, 000 [ lokas ( distichs ) in addition to prose sections.
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