GLYCONIC, a form of Aeolic verse, which may be de scribed as a combination of one or more dactyls (or perhaps cho riambi) with shorter feet.
But the commonest is .. , , _ 1/4, Y., often called simply a gly conic ; this is a great favourite of Catullus and Horace, as sic to diva potens Cypri; it may be imitated in English by immemorial harmonies. The name is from Glycon, a lyric poet.