in the Greek and Latin poetry, a foot consisting of three long syllables. As audiri, cantabunt, virtutem.

It takes its name either from a dance in use among the people called Molossi or Epirotai; or from the temple of Jupiter Molossus, where odes were sung, in which this foot had a great share; or else because the march of the Molossi, when they went to the combat, was composed of these feet, or had the cadence thereof. The same foot was also called among the ancients, Vertumnus, extensipes, hippius, et caninus.