ग्रीक आणि लॅटिन 4 टेट्रामेट्रिक ओळींच्या स्ट्रोफचा समावेश असलेल्या कवितेमध्ये मीटरचा श्लोक वापरला जातो, कीर्ती किंवा बदनामी Alcaeus द्वारे शोधली,

alcaics's Usage Examples:

A copy of Latin alcaics from his pen was printed in the Academiæ Oxoniensis Comitia Philologica.

His Odes featured more complex measures, including alcaics and sapphics, which were sometimes a difficult fit for Latin structure.

His death was lamented in some elegant Latin alcaics by his friend, G.

before that event is given by the appearance of a translation into Latin alcaics which was published by his colleague Allen Beville Ramsay in Ros Rosarum.

use of a metre which might be scanned as, and is clearly modelled upon, alcaics, but is, in practice, composed of iambic feet.