DACTYLIC, something that has a relation to dactyls.
Anciently there were dactylic as well as spondaic flutes, tibiae dactyliceæ. The dactylic flutes consisted of unequal intervals; as the dactylic foot does of unequal measures.
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DACTYLIC, something that has a relation to dactyls.
Anciently there were dactylic as well as spondaic flutes, tibiae dactyliceæ. The dactylic flutes consisted of unequal intervals; as the dactylic foot does of unequal measures.