/euh sklee'pee euh dee"euhn/ , Class. Pros.
adj.
1. noting or pertaining to a verse consisting of a spondee, two or three choriambi, and an iamb.
n.
2. an Asclepiadean verse.
[ 1700-10; Asklepiádei ( os ) pertaining to Asclepiades, 3rd-century Greek poet to whom the verse was attributed + -AN ]