Definition of Alcic
Al*ca"ic (&?;), a. [L. Alcaïcus,
Gr. &?;.] Pertaining to Alcæus, a lyric poet of Mitylene, about
6000 b. c. -- n. A kind of verse, so
called from Alcæus. One variety consists of five feet, a spondee or
iambic, an iambic, a long syllable, and two dactyls.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- pertaining to Alcaeus, a Greek lyric poet of around 600BC; especially, of a verse meter in a four-line stanza which he supposedly invented
- (in plural) alcaic verses
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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