The corpus record — Latin

iambus

iambus · m

an iambic foot

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Where it lives

Ephemeris id est totius diei negotium 1 · 7.71/10k
De Arte Poetica liber 2 · 6.47/10k
Ibis 2 · 5.09/10k
Epistularum 4 · 4.4/10k
Opilius Macrinus 1 · 4.02/10k
Orator 7 · 3.79/10k
Carus et Carinus et Numerianus 1 · 3.77/10k
Epodon 1 · 3.33/10k
Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 3 · 2.37/10k
Carmina 3 · 2.33/10k
Epistulae 2 · 2.02/10k
Remedia Amoris 1 · 1.91/10k

Densest 12 of 21 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ĭambus — Lewis & Short

ĭambus, i, m., = i)/ambos,

I an iambic foot, an iambus.

I Lit., Hor. A. P. 251; Cic. de Or. 3, 47, 182; id. Or. 57, 192; Quint. 9, 4, 47; 48; 80; Diom. p. 473 P. et saep.—

II Transf., an iambic poem, iambic poetry: quem Hipponactis iambus laeserat aut qui erat Archilochi versu vulneratus, Cic. N. D. 3, 38, 91; so in sing., Hor. A. P. 79; Quint. 10, 1, 96.—In plur., Hor. C. 1, 16, 3; 24; id. Ep. 1, 19, 23; 2, 2, 59; Quint. 10, 1, 9; 59.

In the wild

iamborum Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 10.1.59
iambus Cicero, Orator 217
iambus Ausonius, Epistularum 31.15
iambon Statius, Silvae 2.2.115
iambis Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 9.4.136
iambus Cicero, de Natura Deorum 3.91

6 of 52 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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