ἴαμβος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=[ῐ], ὁ, <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> [[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>, =, <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">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> <b class="b2">iambic verse</b>, <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>; ἴ. 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">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">III</span> <b class="b2">iambic poem</b>, such as those of Callimachus, <span class="bibl">Str.8.3.30</span>; esp. [[lampoon]], mostly in pl., <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 ἴ</b>. <span class="bibl">Ath.10.445b</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">b</span> of the persons lampooned, <span class="bibl">Luc.<span class="title">Pseudol.</span> 2</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> [[a kind of extempore play]] got up by <b class="b3">αὐτοκάβδαλοι</b>, who themselves had the same name, <span class="bibl">Semus 20</span>. (For the termination perh. cf. <b class="b3">διθύραμβος, θρίαμβος</b>.)</span>

|etymtx=Grammatical information: m.<br />Meaning: name of a metrical foot and a verse, [[iambus]], [[mocking verse]] (Archil., Hdt., Att.).<br />Compounds: Compp., e. g. <b class="b3">ἰαμβο-ποιός</b> (Arist.), <b class="b3">χωλ-ίαμβος</b> [[choliambus]] (Demetr. Eloc.; cf. Risch IF 59, 284f.).<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">ἰαμβικός</b> [[iambical]], [[mocking]] (Arist., D. H.), <b class="b3">ἰαμβώδης</b> [[mocking]] (Philostr.), <b class="b3">ἰαμβύλος</b> <b class="b2">mocking poet</b> (Hdn.), <b class="b3">ἰαμβύκη</b> name of an instrument (Eup., H.; cf. <b class="b3">σαμβύκη</b>), <b class="b3">ἰαμβεῖος</b> [[iambic]], <b class="b3">ἰαμβεῖον</b> n. <b class="b2">iambic verse</b> (Att. ). Denominative verbs: <b class="b3">ἰαμβίζω</b>, <b class="b3">-ιάζω</b> <b class="b2">speak, mock in iambi</b> (Gorg., Arist.; cf. v. Wilamowitz Glaube 2, 53) with <b class="b3">ἰαμβιστής</b> <b class="b2">mocking-poet</b> (Ath.).<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]<br />Etymology: Cf. <b class="b3">διθύραμβος</b>, <b class="b3">θρίαμβος</b> (also <b class="b3">ἴθυμβος</b>); of Pre-Greek origin. Older attempts to give an explanation from Indo-European in Bq (with Add. et corr.) ; s. on <b class="b3">διθύραμβος</b>. - Acc. to Theander Eranos 20, 1ff. to <b class="b3">ἰά</b>; on this Kretschmer Glotta 13, 243ff. (s. also on <b class="b3">ἔλεγος</b>). See Hester, Lingia 13 (1965) 354f.