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.
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.
- τὸ δὲ τοῦ Ἀρχιλόχου ἐκεῖνο ἤδη σοι λέγω, ὅτι τέττιγα τοῦ πτεροῦ συνείληφασ, εἴπερ τινὰ ποιητὴν ἰάμβων ἀκούεισ Ἀρχίλοχον, Πάριον τὸ γένοσ, ἄνδρα κομιδῇ ἐλεύθερον καὶ παρρησίᾳ συνόντα, μηδὲν ὀκνοῦντα ὀνειδίζειν, εἰ καὶ ὅτι μάλιστα λυπήσειν ἔμελλε τοὺσ περιπετεῖσ ἐσομένουσ τῇ χολῇ τῶν ἰάμβων αὐτοῦ. (Lucian, Pseudologista, (no name) 1:4)
- πολλοῦ γε καὶ δέω σοὶ δὲ μυρία συνειδὼσ ἰάμβων ἄξια βεβιωμένα, πρὸσ ἅ μοι δοκεῖ οὐδ’ ἂν ὁ Ἀρχίλοχοσ αὐτὸσ διαρκέσαι, προσπαρακαλέσασ καὶ τὸν Σιμωνίδην καὶ τὸν Ἱππώνακτα συμποιεῖν μετ’ αὐτοῦ κἂν ἕν τι τῶν προσόντων σοι κακῶν, οὕτω σύ γε παῖδασ ἀπέφηνασ ἐν πάσῃ βδελυρίᾳ τὸν Ὀροδοκίδην καὶ τὸν Λυκάμβην καὶ τὸν Βούπαλον, τοὺσ ἐκείνων ἰάμβουσ. (Lucian, Pseudologista, (no name) 2:2)
- ἰάμβων δὲ ἦν αποιητὴσ οὐδενὸσ δεύτεροσ φησί, τῶν μετ’ Ἀρχίλοχον ποιητῶν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 23)
- Σιμωνίδησ ἐν δευτέρῳ ἰάμβων οἱο͂́ν τε χηνὸσ ὠεόν Μαιανδρίου. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 5010)
