EPITRITUS, in prosody, a foot consisting of three long syllables and one short. Of these, grammarians reckon four kinds: the first consisting of an iambus and spondee, as salūtātes; the second, of a trocheus and spondee, as cōncitātū; the third, of a spondee and an iambus, as cōmmūnicāns; and the fourth, of a spondee and trocheus, as incāntārē. See the articles SPONDEUS, TROCHEUS, &c.