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Alcaic
(a.)
Pertaining to Alcaeus, a lyric poet of Mitylene, about 6000
b. c.
Alcaic
(n.)
A kind of verse, so called from Alcaeus. One variety
consists of five feet, a spondee or iambic, an iambic, a long syllable,
and two dactyls.