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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Alcaic \Al*ca"ic\, adjective [L. Alca["i]cus, Gr. ?.] Pertaining to Alc[ae]us, a lyric poet of Mitylene, about 6000 b. c. -- n. A kind of verse, so called from Alc[ae]us. One variety consists of five feet, a spondee or iambic, an iambic, a long syllable, and two dactyls. ||
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
Alcaic
noun: verse in the meter used in Greek and Latin poetry consisting of strophes of 4 tetrametric lines; reputedly invented by Alcaeus [syn: {Alcaic verse}]
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