Anacreontic

ANACREON'TIC, a. Pertaining to Anacreon, a Greek poet, whose odes and epigrams are celebrated for their delicate, easy and graceful air, and for their exact imitation of nature. His verse consists of three feet and a half, usually spondees and iambuses, sometimes anapests; as in this line of Horace.

""Lydia, dic per omnes.""

ANACREON'TIC, n. A poem composed in the manner of Anacreon.