Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges, PROSODY, FORMS OF VERSE, DACTYLIC VERSE, chapter 613

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[*] 613. A verse receives its name from its dominant or fundamental foot: as, Dactylic, Iambic, Trochaic, Anapœstic; and from the number of measures (single or double) which it contains: as, Hexameter, Tetrameter, Trimeter, Dimeter.

[*] Note.--Trochaic, Iambic, and Anapæstic verses are measured not by single feet, but by pairs (dipodia), so that six Iambi make a Trimeter.

Ginn and Company, 1903.

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