iambus|iambi|iambuses in English
noun
[i'am·bus || aɪ'æmbəs]
(Poetry) metrical foot consisting of two syllables (the first syllable is short and the second long or the first syllable is unstressed and the second stressed)
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1. “The iambus is the invention of Archilochus of Paros.” Clement of Alexandria Miscellanies “Semonides is made contemporary with Archilochus, and Callinus comes a little earlier, Archilochus speaking of Magnesia as destroyed and Callinus as still flourishing.