Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for AL-CA'IC
AL'CA-HEST, or AL'KA-HESTAL-CA'ICS
AL-CA'IC, a.
Pertaining to Alcæus, a lyric poet of Mitylene, in Lesbos, who flourished about the forty-fourth Olympiad; or to other poets of the same name, of which three are mentioned; one an Athenian tragic poet, and another a Messenian.
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