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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

  • ποιεῖ γὰρ τὸν πατέρα λέγοντα περὶ τῆσ θυγατρὸσ ἐν τῷ ἰάμβῳ χρημάτων δ’ ἀέλπτον οὐθέν ἐστιν οὐδ’ ἀπώμοτον, καὶ τὸν Χάρωνα τὸν τέκτονα ἐν τῷ ἰάμβῳ οὗ ἀρχὴ οὔ μοι τὰ Γύγεω, καὶ ὡσ Σοφοκλῆσ τὸν Αἵμονα ὑπὲρ τῆσ Ἀντιγόνησ πρὸσ τὸν πατέρα ὡσ λεγόντων ἑτέρων. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 3, chapter 17 16:3)
  • Γύγησ, τοῦ καὶ Ἀρχίλοχοσ ὁ Πάριοσ κατὰ τὸν αὐτὸν χρόνον γενόμενοσ ἐν ἰάμβῳ τριμέτρῳ ἐπεμνήσθη. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume II, , section5)
  • καὶ τὸν Χάρωνα τὸν τέκτονα ἐν τῷ ἰάμβῳ οὗ ἡ ἀρχή· (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume II, , 31)
  • ποιεῖ γὰρ τὸν πατέρα λέγοντα περὶ τῆσ θυγατρὸσ ἐν τῷ ἰάμβῳ· (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume II, , 254)
  • οὗ καὶ Σιμωνίδησ μνημονεύει ἐν Ιἄμβῳ, οὗ ἡ ἀρχή· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 7610)

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