Cabilliavus: Epigrammata selecta

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Epigrammata selecta by Balduinus Cabilliavus (1620)

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This book looks to be full of delights, with a lovely distich right on the first page, although most of the poems are tetrastichs, rather than distichs:

Nox et Dies
Mille oculos gerit illa, Cyclops hic errat: at uno
Plus oculo hic cernit: luscus an Argus erit?

Cunich: Epigrammata Anthologiae Graecorum

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Epigrammata Anthologiae Graecorum by Raimondo Cunich (1784)

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This is a selection of poems from the Greek Anthology rendered into Latin verse. Authors and citations are provided, but only the Latin versions, no Greek. It's a lovely selection of poems with many distichs, of course! There are notes in Latin also.



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Eckhard: Epigrammata

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Epigrammata by Melchior Sylvester Eckhard (1629)

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This is definitely a book to harvest for distichs. Like this one!
Bileami Asina
Cur adeo Bileami omnes mirantur asellam,
Cum vel mille asini magna loquantur adhuc?


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Bauhusius: Epigrammata

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Epigrammatum libri V by Bernardus Bauhusius (1620)

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Although these religious epigrams tend to be on the longish side, there are a few distichs in here that I can harvest, too. Here's one:
Disce mori
Certus ut evites Lethen, Acheronta, Stygemque,
Ne vive, tantum discito semper mori.


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Girard: Stichostratia

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Stichostratia epigrammaton centuriae quinque by Jean Girard (1552)

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The first book is full of distichs! (The second book contains epigrams that are four lines long, etc.)



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Kochanowski: Dzieła wszystkie

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Dzieła wszystkie by Jan Kochanowski (1884)

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This volume of Kochanowski's complete works contains his Latin poetry.



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Owen: Epigrammata

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Epigrammata by John Owen (1794)

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This is a nice, easy-to-read edition of John Owen's epigrams which includes the poems of Michele Verinus, not by Owen at all - "Audoeno falso adiudicata" as the editor notes. There is also an appendix of other epigrams (with no source indicated), as well as a series of poems either about or directed towards Owen himself, which do include a note about the author.



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Bauhuis: Epigrammata

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Epigrammata by Bernard Bauhuis (1620)

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This is a collection of epigrams by a Jesuit scholar from Antwerp, and it looks like I can gather some religious distichs here, although the poems are admittedl on the long side (and written in a nice variety of meters, too, I should add). For a distich, here is one right at the beginning of the book:

Peccati Punitio
Ad scelerum poenas ultrix venit ira Tonantis;
Hoc graviore manu, quo graviore pede.

Here's another one - as you can see, this is a Jesuit poet who likes to make use of his classical learning, too:

Disce Mori
Certus ut evites Lethen, Acheronta, Stygemque,
Ne vive, tantum discito semper mori.



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Glandorpius: Distichorum liber

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Familiae Juliae gentis, item Distichorum liber by Johann Glandorp (1576)

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The distichs of Glandorpius (which are titled) begin on p. 303 and run through p. 335. For a modern edition, see Suringar's 1874 Ioannes Glandorpius in zijne Latijnsche disticha.



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Van Vlaenderen: Epigrammata Miscellanea

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Epigrammata Miscellanea by Antoine-Ferdinand Van Vlaenderen (1666)

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This is an absolutely delightful collection of epigrams - distichs, in fact! I will be able to get quite a large number of distichs from this book for my summer project.



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Ker: Epigrams by Martial

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Epigrams by Martial, ed. Walter C. A. Ker

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This is the old Loeb edition, published in 1919-1920, with facing Latin text and English translation.



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Bohn: The Epigrams of Martial

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The Epigrams of Martial, ed. by Henry George Bohn

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This is a great collection of English translations of Martial's epigrams. Each poem has a literal translation and usually at least one or more verse translations from a range of English sources. The naughty poems are translated into Italian, not English. :-)



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Chase: The Distichs of Cato

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The Distichs of Cato by Wayland Johnson Chase (1922)

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This book contains the Latin text along with an English translation prepared by Chase, based on earlier English translations with a bit of an archaic feel. There's also a detailed introduction to the text.


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Zacher: Altfranzösische Sprichwörter

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Altfranzösische Sprichwörter by J. Zacher (1859)

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The text begins on p. 114 and runs through p. 144 of Zeitschrift für deutsches Altertum und deutsche Literatur, Volume 11, with almost 300 sayings in Latin and in Old French. Delightful!



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Voigt: Florilegium Gottingense

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Florilegium Gottingense ed. by Ernst Voigt, in Romanische Forschungen (1887)

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Voigt's edition of the delightful Florilegium Gottingense collection of proverbs begins on p. 281. It contains over 300 proverbs, along with an index of sources.


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Andrelinus: Disticha

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Disticha by Publius Faustus Andrelinus (1539)

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Each of the little distichs in the "hecatodistichon" is accompanied by a brief essay.



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Moker: Decalogus metricus et paraenetica disticha

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Decalogus metricus et paraenetica disticha by Anton Moker (1573)

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This is wonderful collection of distichs in both Latin and in German, organizing according to the Biblical Ten Commandments. For example, on the theme of "non occides," there is this distich: Non hominem quemquam debes occidere namque / qui necat ense fero, rursus is ense perit.



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Oudin: Silva distichorum moralium

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Silva distichorum moralium by François Oudin (1719)

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The book is organized by various uplifting themes - agenda quotidie, de libris et studio, de cultu corporis et munditie, etc.



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Catonis Disticha Moralia et Lilii Monita Paedagogica

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Catonis Disticha Moralia et Lilii Monita Paedagogica by John Stirling (1734)

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Here is a description of the book from its title page: "Cato's Moral Distichs and Lily's Paedagogical Admonitions; viz. The Words of the Author placed according to their Grammatical Construction, in the lower Part of the Page. An Alphabetical Vocabulary of all the Words, shewing their Parts of Speech, and Signification. The Themes of the Verbs with their Government. A TABLE of Scanning, containing all the possible Variations of Hexameter and Pentameter Verses, by which every Line of the Author may be Scanned. Lastly, The Rhetorical Figures are placed at the Bottom of each Page as they occur." The book was prepared for the students of St. Andrew's School in Holbourn. Price: stitched, 9 pence; bound, 1 shilling.


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Appendini: Disticha

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Disticha by Urbano Appendini (1834)

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This Urbano Appendini is the brother of Francesco Maria Appendini. The book is divided into different sections: de educatione religiosa, de educatione physica, de educatione intellectuali, and de educatione sociali.



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