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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

ARCHILOCHIAN

a.Pertaining to Archilochus, the poet, who invented a verse of seven feet, the first four dactyls or spondees, the last three, trochees.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

ARCHILOCHIAN

Ar `chi *lo "chi *an, a. Etym: [L. Archilochius. ]

 

Defn: Of or pertaining to the satiric Greek poet Archilochus; as, Archilochian meter.