ἴαμβος

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 play got up by αὐτοκάβδαλοι, who themselves had the same name, Semus 20. (For the termination perh. cf. διθύραμβος, θρίαμβος.)