Alcaic

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Alcaic \Al*ca"ic\, a. [L. Alca["i]cus, Gr. ?.]
     Pertaining to Alc[ae]us, a lyric poet of Mitylene, about 6000
     b. c. -- n. A kind of verse, so called from Alc[ae]us. One
     variety consists of five feet, a spondee or iambic, an
     iambic, a long syllable, and two dactyls.
     [1913 Webster] Alcaid



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Alcaic
       n : verse in the meter used in Greek and Latin poetry consisting
           of strophes of 4 tetrametric lines; reputedly invented by
           Alcaeus [syn: {Alcaic verse}]