Alcaic

a. [Lat. Alcaïcus.] Pertaining to Alcaeus, a lyric poet of Mitylene, in Lesbos, who flourished about the forty-fourth Olympiad; or to other poets of the same name.

n. (Pros.) A kind of verse, so called from Alcæus, the inventor, and consisting of five feet, a spondee or iambic, an iambic, a long syllable, and two dactyls.