Leonine Verses

Rhyming Latin compositions, very popular in the Middle Ages. In the 3rd century a piece of 1200 such verses was written by Com modi an us. St. Augustine and the venerable Bede also wrote some. The proper leonine consists of a couplet rhyming at the end; but the rhymes may be otherwise distributed: e. g.— “ O miseratrix! O dominatrix! præcipe dictu; Ne devastemur, ne lapidemur, grand in is ictu. ”