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A bacchius () is a metrical foot of three syllables, consisting of one unstressed syllable followed by two stressed ones.

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A bacchius () is a metrical foot of three syllables, consisting of one unstressed syllable followed by two stressed ones.

In accentual-syllabic verse we could describe a bacchius as a foot that goes like this: {| border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=5 | da | DUM | DUM |}

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