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Ἴα
one; cry
[i)/a is the same as] mi/a, or voice, or force/strength.
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Ἰαβώκ
Iabok
Proper name.
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3
Ἰαβίν
Iabin, Jabin
As [in] the [phrase] "Jabin at the flood of Kisson."
high
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tragedy
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Iadmon
[Genitive] Iadmonos. He was a Samian. Rhodopis was his slave, a Thracian woman by birth who became a courtesan. Kharaxos, Sappho's brother, married her and had children by her. See under "Aesop the Samian."
high
short
ι
5
Ἰαζάρτης
Iazartes
[sc. Another name for] the river Tanais.
high
short
ι
6
Ἰαζύγων
Iazyges
Name of a people.
high
short
ι
7
Ἰάθωνος
Iathonos, Iathonus, Jathonus
Proper name.
high
short
ι
8
Ἰακώβ
Jacob
Proper name.
high
short
ι
9
Ἰάειρος
Iaeiros, Jairus
Proper name.
high
short
ι
10
Ἰακχάζουσι
they call on Bacchus
[Meaning] they call out, they guard. Herodotus [sc. uses the word].
high
short
ι
11
Ἴακχος
Iakchos, Iacchus
[Meaning] Dionysus; or a hymn to Dionysus.
high
short
ι
12
Ἰάκωβος
Iacobos, Jacob
Son of Hesychius the physician; the man surnamed Psychristus ["Chilly"], from the exarchy of Damascus. His father went to Rhodes, then to Drepanon, the one in Argos [Myth, Place]; and when he came there …
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medium
ι
13
Ἰάκωβος
Iacobos, Jacob
A physician. He derived his lineage from Damascus. Reaching the greatest precision in science he was accomplished not only in diagnosing diseases but also in curing them, [working] carefully and competently, [having learned] both …
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medium
ι
14
Ἰάκωβος
Iakobos, Jacobus, Jacob
This man drank poison and died under Valens. The person who advised him to drink the poison was Libanius the sophist, because he had tried to find out who would succeed Valens as emperor.
high
short
ι
15
Ἴακχος
Iakkhos, Iacchus
[Meaning a] hymn to Dionysos. "They sing the Iacchos, like Diagoras." They say that this man was called "the atheist." There was also a second [Diagoras], who was ridiculed for his size. Hermippos in …
high
short
ι
16
Ἴακχος
Iakkhos, Iacchus
[Meaning] Dionysos at the breast. And a certain hero; and the song for him; and the day on which the feast for him [is held]. But some [say the word means] also a tumult. …
high
short
ι
17
Ἰάλεμος
Ialemos, dirge
He who/that which brings grief to the lost. And [there is] a proverb, "more chilly than Ialemos." They call a dirge a Ialemos. They say that he was the son of Calliope, unfortunate and …
high
short
ι
18
Ἰαλεμώδη
dirge-like
[Meaning things that are] frigid and worthless.
high
short
ι
19
Ἰαληψός
Ialepsos
A territory.
high
short
ι
20
Ἴαλλος
iallos
[Meaning] a jester. And [sc. also attested is its plural] i)/alloi, [meaning] jokes.
high
short
ι
21
Ἰάλλω
I put forth
[Meaning] I stretch out.
high
short
ι
22
Ἴαμα
medicine, remedy
[no gloss]
high
short
ι
23
Ἰαμβεῖον Ἰάμβιον
iambic speech
and in the neuter i)ambei=on; but [sc. note also] i)a/mbion, and Iambios, a proper name.
high
short
ι
24
Ἰάμβη
Iambe
A proper name.
high
short
ι
25
Ἰαμβίζω Ἰαμβίζω
I iambize, I lampoon
I iambize [means] I act insolently. For as the iamb [comes] from a short and a long [syllable], so insolence begins from a small action and proceeds to a greater. And Homer [writes]: "[Strife …
high
short
ι
26
Ἰάμβλιχος
Iamblichus, Iamblichos
This man, so they say, was born of slaves. He wrote the work called Babyloniaca ["Babylonian Histories"]. It is [about] the passion of Rhodanes and Sinonis, in 39 books. This man tells of Zobaras …
high
short
ι
27
Ἰάμβλιχος
Iamblichus, Iamblichos
Another [Iamblichus], from Chalcis in Syria; philosopher, student of the philosopher Porphyry, [himself] a student of Plotinus, lived in the time of the emperor Constantine. He wrote diverse philosophical books.
high
short
ι
28
Ἰαμβρῆς
Iambres, Jambres
A proper name; and it is declined Iambrou.
high
short
ι
29
Ἰαμβύκαι
iambucas, sambucas
Triangular musical instruments, in [= with] which they used to sing iambic verses. But some [call them] sambucas.
high
short
ι
30
Ἰαμενής
Iamenes
A proper name. Also [sc. attested is] Iamenos, [also] a proper name.
high
short
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