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ἴαμβος

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἴαμβος ἰάμβου

Structure: ἰαμβ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: From i)a/ptw 2, because iambics were first used by the satiric poets Archilochus and Hipponax; criminosi iambi, Hor.

Sense

  1. an iamb

Declension

Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • εἶτά μοι εἰσ τὸ αὐτὸ φέρων συγκαθεῖρξεν τὸ σκῶμμα καὶ τὸν ἰάμβον καὶ κυνισμὸν καὶ τὸν Εὔπολιν καὶ τὸν Ἀριστοφάνη, δεινοὺσ ἄνδρασ ἐπικερτομῆσαι τὰ σεμνὰ καὶ χλευάσαι τὰ ὀρθῶσ ἔχοντα. (Lucian, Bis accusatus sive tribunalia, (no name) 33:9)
  • οὐκ ἔγωγ’, ἐπεὶ ἰάμβον Ἱππώνακτοσ ἀνεμιμνῃσκόμην. (Aristophanes, Frogs, Lyric-Scene, iambics74)
  • ἰάμβον ἐπενόησεν Ἀρχίλοχοσ ὁ Πάριοσ. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume II, , section22)
  • δύναται γὰρ ἀμφότερα κατὰ συνεκφώνησιν εἰσ ἰάμβον περιϊστασθαι. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume II, , 290)
  • ταῦτα δὲ ἀμφότερα κατὰ συνεκφώνησιν ἰάμβον ἔχει τὸν πρῶτον πόδα. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume II, , 298)

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