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