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|Definition=an [[exclamation]], chiefly in dramatic poetry (lyr.); freq. repeated twice, rarely three times, as <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Supp.</span>125</span>; esp. in invoking aid, <b class="b3">ἰ. μάκαρες, ἰ. θεοί</b>, <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Th.</span>96</span>, <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Ph.</span>736</span>; <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> ἰ. ἰ. Παιάν <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Tr.</span>222</span>; ἰ. Βάκχαι <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Ba.</span>578</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> freq. also of grief or suffering, <b class="b2">oh!</b> ἰ. δύστανος <span class="bibl">S. <span class="title">Ant.</span>850</span>; ἰ. μοί μοι <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">OC</span>199</span>, etc.; ἰ. κακοπάρθενε Μοῖρα <span class="title">AP</span>7.468 (Mel.); <b class="b3">ἰ. Σπάρτα</b> ib.<span class="bibl">434</span> (Diosc.): c. gen., ἰ., πάτερ, σοῦ τῶν τε . . τέκνων <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Ag.</span>1305</span>; ἰ. μοι πόνων <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Ph.</span>1290</span>; ἰ. ἰ. τραυμάτων <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Ach.</span> 1205</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">3</span> rarely in Prose, <b class="b3">ἰ., φασί τινες</b>, of an objector, <span class="bibl">Gal.<span class="title">Thras.</span> 32</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> with other Interj., ἰ. ὢ ὤ <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">OC</span>224</span>; ἒ ἒ ἰ. <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">El.</span>840</span>. [ῐ: yet sometimes ῑ, in anap., <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Ag.</span>1455</span>, <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">El.</span>149</span>, <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Alc.</span>741</span>.]</span>