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Ἴακχος , ὁ, Iacchos, mystic name of Dionysus, S.Fr.959, Trag.Adesp.140 (lyr.), Ar.Ra.398, Paus.1.2.4, etc.; ἡ Ἐλευσῖνι τοῦ Ἰαάκχου (sic)
A.“ὑποδοχή” IG22.847.21; τὸν Ἴακχον ἐξελαύνειν lead forth a Bacchic procession, Plu.Alc.34; “τὸν Ἴ. προπέμψαι” IG22.1028.10.
2. song in his honour, ὁ μυστικὸς ἴ. Hdt.8.65, cf. Athenio ap.Posidon.36 J., Anon. ap. Suid.; ᾁδειν τὸν Ἴ. Hsch. s.v. Διαγόρας: as Adj., “ἴακχος ᾠδά” E.Cyc.69 (lyr.).
2. in pl., Epigr.Gr.985 (Philae): generally, chorus, νεκρῶν ἴ. E.Tr.1230; τυμπάνων ἴ. dub. in Id.Fr.586.4L (lyr.).
II. used by the tyrant Dionysius for χοῖρος, Athanis 1 ( = Dionys.Trag.12).
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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