bacchius

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. In prosody, a foot composed of one short and two long syllables, with the ictus on the first long, as in ăvā′ rī, ăbōve′ bōard. See antibacchius and hemiolic. [Before the Alexandrine period Βακχει%128ος meant the )Ιωνικός (see Ionic) or the χορίαμβος (see choriamb.) Beginning with that period, the Βακχει%26ος was , and ὑποβάκχειος (ἀντιβάκχειος, παλιυβάκχειος) . Hephæstion, Quintilian, and other writers invert this, and make the Βακχει%26ος , and παλιμβάκχειος (etc.) .]

Wiktionary

1. n. prosody A metrical foot composed of a short syllable and two long ones; according to some, two long and a short.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. (Pros.) A metrical foot composed of a short syllable and two long ones; according to some, two long and a short.