Alcaic
Alcaic ({not transcribed}) , adjective
[Latin Alcaicus, Greek {not transcribed}.]
Pertaining to Alcaus, a lyric poet of Mitylene, about 6000 b. c.
A kind of verse, so called from Alcaus. One variety consists of five feet, a spondee or iambic, an iambic, a long syllable, and two dactyls.