On the other hand, Cretic and trochaic metres, from their affinity to the old Saturnian, came most easily to the early dramatists, and are largely employed by Plautus to express lively emotion.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar
The fact played an important part in determining Latin poetic vocabulary; for instance, such an ordinary word as femina, Cretic in its oblique cases, is usually represented through metonymy by such words as nurus and mater.
"The Last Poems of Ovid"
Ovid
Amphibrach, defined Amphimac, amphimacer, or Cretic, defined.
"The Grammar of English Grammars"
Goold Brown