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Monostich, mon′ō-stik, n. a poem complete in one verse.—adj.

Menander made a fine collection of them under the title of Sententi� Monostich�.

A minor poet called Admetus told him he had inserted a clause in his will for the inscribing on his tomb of a monostich, which I will give: Admetus' husk earth holds, and Heaven himself.