ἴαμβος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=[ῐ], ὁ, <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[iamb]], [[iambus]], the [[metrical]] [[foot]], <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">R.</span>400b</span>, etc.; ὁ ἴ. αὐτὴ . . ἡ λέξις ἡ τῶν πολλῶν <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Rh.</span>1408b33</span>; <b class="b3">δάκτυλος ὁ κατὰ ἴαμβον</b> = iambic type of dactyl (⏑ ‒ ⏑ ‒) <span class="bibl">Anon.Rhythm.<span class="title">Oxy.</span>2.3</span>, <span class="bibl">Aristid.Quint.1.17</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> [[iambic verse]], <span class="bibl">Archil.22</span> (pl.) <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Ion</span>534c</span>, etc.; ἴαμβος τρίμετρος <span class="bibl">Hdt. 1.12</span>; ἴαμβον [[Ἱππῶναξ|Ἱππώνακτος]] <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Ra.</span>661</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Rh.</span>1418b29</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Po.</span>1448b33</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">III</span> [[iambic]] [[poem]], such as those of [[Callimachus]], <span class="bibl">Str.8.3.30</span>; esp. [[lampoon]], mostly in plural, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Lg.</span>935e</span>, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Pol.</span>1336b20</span>; ἐφ' ὑβριστῆρας ἰάμβους <span class="title">AP</span>7.352 (Mel.(?)): also in Prose, <b class="b3">οἱ καταλογάδην ἴαμβοι</b> <span class="bibl">Ath.10.445b</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">b</span> of the persons lampooned, <span class="bibl">Luc.<span class="title">Pseudol.</span> 2</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> a kind of [[extempore]] [[play]] got up by [[αὐτοκάβδαλος|αὐτοκάβδαλοι]], who themselves had the same name, <span class="bibl">Semus 20</span>. (For the termination perhaps cf. [[διθύραμβος]], [[θρίαμβος]].)</span>