asclepiadic

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. Of or pertaining to the Asclepiad or Asclepiadic, a kind of verse.
2. n. In ancient prosody, a verse consisting of a spondee, two (or three) choriambi, and an iambus; or, according to other authorities, a logaœdic verse consisting of a basis, three cyclic dactyls, of which the second is syncopated (or five cyclic dactyls, of which the second and fourth are syncopated), and a trochaic dipody catalectic. The shorter form is called the lesser, the longer the greater, Asclepiadic.