VERSE Copy link • VERSEline of poetry, versus, -ūs (distichon, tristichon, tetrastichon, etc., a set of two, three, four, etc., verses). Beautiful verses, versus ornati, luculenti (Cic.): very good, bad verses, versus optimi, mali: better and smoother verses, versus magis facti et mollius euntes (Hor., Sat., 1, 10, 58): to write verses, versus facere, scribere: to write excellent verses on any subject, optimis versibus de aliqua re scribere; ornatissimis atque optimis versibus de aliqua re dicere (Cic.). Poetry, numeri (plur.): versus. To write in verse, sententias claudere numeris; verba includere versu (Cic.). A small section, membrum: articulus.