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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

  • ἀμείβομαι Μούσῃσι πρὸσ θύρῃσ1’ ᾄδων καὶ δόντι καὶ μὴ δόντι πλέονα τῶν αἰτέω, καὶ ἐπὶ τέλει δὲ τοῦ ἰάμβου φησὶν ἀλλ’, ὦγαθοί, ἐπορέξαθ’ ὧν μυχὸσ πλουτεῖ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 59 3:2)
  • διὰ τοῦδε τοῦ ἰάμβου δῆλόσ ἐστι· (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume II, , 165)

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