something that has a relation to dactyls.

Anciently, there were dactylic as well as spondeic flutes, tibi dactylica. The dactylic flutes consisted of unequal intervals; as the dactylic foot does of unequal measures.

Dactylic Verses are hexameter verses, ending in a dactyl instead of a spondee; as spondeic verses are those which have a spondee in the fifth foot instead of a dactyl.

An instance of a dactylic verse we have in Virgil:

Bis patriae occidere manus: quin praetium omnia Per legemque oculos.—Aen. vi. 32.