ἴαμβος

iambos

iambus

Appears 6 times across Aristotle's works.

Frequency by work

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Rhetoric 3
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Book III 3
Chapter 8 1408b21–1409a21

1408b33

Chapter 17 1417b21–1418b39

1418b28
1418b30
Poetics 2
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Chapter 4 1448b4–1449a31

1448b33
1449a4
Politics 1
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Book VII 1
Chapter 17 1336a3–1337a7

1336b20

Dictionary (LSJ)

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; ἐφʼ 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.)

Key passages & sense analysis (Bonitz)

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