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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [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}, {Alcaic verse}]
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