Meanings (ES + gloss)
dáctilo
A metrical foot of three syllables (— ⏑ ⏑), one long followed by two short, or one accented followed by two unaccented.
Now the Bard, glad to get an audience, […] / stuck fast with his first hexameter, / Not one of all whose gouty feet would stir. // But ere the spavin'd dactyls could be spurr'd / I…
—My name is absurd too: Malachi Mulligan, two dactyls. But it has a Hellenic ring, hasn't it?
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