1. alcaic - Noun
2. alcaic - Adjective
Pertaining to Alcaeus, a lyric poet of Mitylene, about 6000 b. c.
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.
Source: Webster's dictionaryTarrant, Ancient receptions of Horace, 279) Statius paid homage to Horace by composing one poem in Sapphic and one in Alcaic meter (the verse forms most often associated with Odes), which he included in his collection of occasional poems, Silvae. Source: Internet
Fulvius Ursinus compiled a fuller collection of Alcaic fragments, including a commentary, which was published at Antwerp in 1568. Source: Internet