Associations to the word «Bacchius»

Noun

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Wiktionary

BACCHIUS, noun. (prosody) A metrical foot composed of a short syllable and two long ones; according to some, two long and a short.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats