anapaestus
From LSJ
θαρσεῖν χρὴ φίλε Βάττε: τάχ' αὔριον ἔσσετ' ἄμεινον → you need to be brave, dear Battus; perhaps tomorrow will be better | Take heart, dear Battos! Tomorrow will be better.
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
ănăpaestus: a, um, adj., = ἀνάπαιστος> (struck back).
I Pes, the metrical foot, anapœst: ˘˘¯ (i. e. a reversed dactyl), Cic. Tusc. 2, 16, 37; id. de Or. 3, 47; also absol. without pes, id. Or. 56.—
II ănă-paestum, i, n. (sc. carmen), a poem in anapœsts, Cic. Tusc. 3, 24, 57; id. Or. 56; Gell. praef. 20.
