Dactylic

We have imitations of four of the leading classes of ancient measures, — the Dactylic, Iambic, Anapestic, and Trochaic, to say nothing of rarer measures, now never known out of colleges.

Uncollected Prose 2006

SOCRATES: First they will help you to be pleasant in company, and to know what is meant by OEnoplian rhythm and what by the Dactylic.

The Satyricon — Volume 06: Editor's Notes 20-66 Petronius Arbiter

Dactylic lines are not common except in the imitations of the classical hexameter.

The Principles of English Versification Paull Franklin Baum

SOCRATES: First they will help you to be pleasant in company, and to know what is meant by OEnoplian rhythm and what by the Dactylic.

The Satyricon — Complete 20-66 Petronius Arbiter

Dactylic verses are measured _by single feet_, and are designated as tetrameter, pentameter, hexameter, accordingly.

New Latin Grammar Charles E. Bennett

If this is done there will be in common English verse only two possible feet—the so-called accentual Trochee and Dactyl, and correspondingly only two possible uniform rhythms, the so-called Trochaic and Dactylic.

Author’s Preface 1918

They have the following values: Dactylic, 10.25; amphibrachic, 12.84; anapæstic, 12.45.

Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. Various 1889

Dactylic tetrameters (catalectic); variations of each element from the average foot of the entire stanza:

Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. Various 1889

[25] Dactylic poetry is not here included, as its progress is somewhat different.

The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Charles Thomas Cruttwell 1879

Bacchiac, though Dactylic and Choriambic systems are not wholly unknown.

The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Charles Thomas Cruttwell 1879