ἴαμβος[ῐ],ὁ ,
A. iambus, the metrical foot ^ _, Pl. R. 400b , etc.; ὁ ἴ. αὐτὴ . . ἡ λέξις ἡ τῶν πολλῶν
Arist. Rh. 1408b33
;δάκτυλος ὁ κατὰ ἴαμβον,=^ _ ^ _, Anon.Rhythm. Oxy. 2.3 , Aristid.Quint. 1.17 .
II. iambic verse, Archil. 22 (pl.) Pl. Ion 534c , etc.; ἴαμβος τρίμετρος
Hdt. 1.12
; ἴ. Ἱππώνακτος
Ar. Ra. 661
, cf. Arist. Rh. 1418b29 , Po. 1448b33 .
III. iambic poem, such as those of Callimachus, Str. 8.3.30 ; esp.lampoon, mostly in pl., Pl. Lg. 935e , Arist. Pol. 1336b20 ; ἐφ' ὑβριστῆρας ἰάμβους
AP 7.352
( Mel. (?)): also in Prose,οἱ καταλογάδην ἴ. Ath. 10.445b .
b. of the persons lampooned, Luc. Pseudol. 2 .
2. a kind of extempore playgot up byαὐτοκάβδαλοι, who themselves had the same name, Semus 20 . (For the termination perh. cf.διθύραμβος, θρίαμβος.)