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 salutantes; the second, of a trocheus and spondee, as cōncitātū; the third of a spondee and iambus, as cōmmūnicans; and the fourth, of a spondee and trocheus, as incantārē. See the articles SPONDEUS, TROCHEUS, &c.