1. A metrical foot consisting of one short syllable followed by two long syllables (⏑ — —), used in classical poetry.
Usage: technical; prosody; classical literature

Examples

• The bacchius is the reverse of the amphibrach in metrical structure.
• Latin poets employed the bacchius in certain verse forms.
• Understanding the bacchius helps readers scan classical Greek and Roman poetry.
• The bacchius pattern appears less frequently than the dactyl in epic verse.