something that has a relation to dactyls.

Anciently there were dactylic as well as spondaic flutes, *tibiae 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 spondaic 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 eccedere manus; quin protinus omnia Perligerent oculis.* — Aen. vi. 33.