- anapaestum
- ănăpaestus, a, um, adj., = anapaistos (struck back).I.Pes, the metrical foot, anapœst:II.
˘˘¯ (i. e. a reversed dactyl),
Cic. Tusc. 2, 16, 37; id. de Or. 3, 47; also absol. without pes, id. Or. 56.—ănă-paestum, i, n. (sc. carmen), a poem in [p. 116] anapœsts, Cic. Tusc. 3, 24, 57; id. Or. 56; Gell. praef. 20.
Lewis & Short Latin Dictionary, 1879. - Revised, Enlarged, and in Great Part Rewritten. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and Charles Short. 2011.