Obs. Also -æus. Pl. spondei, -æi. [L.] = SPONDEE. Also attrib.
1567. Drant, Horace, Art Poet., A viij b. The stade Spondeus foote.
1586. W. Webbe, Eng. Poetrie (Arb.), 80. The two first feete, eyther Dactyli or Spondæi indifferent.
1589. Puttenham, Eng. Poesie (Arb.), 129. This makes a good Dactill and a good spondeus.
1603. Holland, Plutarch’s Morals, 1252. These were the beginnings of the enharmonique Musicke: For first of them they put a Spondæus.
1704. J. Harris, Lex. Techn., I. Spondæus, is the Foot of a Latin Verse, consisting of two Syllables, and both of ’em long, as Ingens.
