ALCAIC ODE, a kind of manly ode composed of several strophes, each consisting of four verses; the two first of which are always Alcaics of the first kind; the third verse is a diameter hypercatalectic, or consisting of four feet and a long syllable; and the fourth verse is an Alcaic of the second kind. The following strophe is of this species, which Horace calls minacer Alcaic camene.
Non possidentem multa vocaveris.
Rette beatum: rellius occupat
Nomen beati, qui deorum
Muneribus sapienter uti, &c.