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ἰα^χ-έω , aor. 1
A.“ἰάχησα” h.Cer.20, AP7.745 (Antip. Sid.):— = ἰάχω, cry, shout, used by Trag. in lyr., E.Heracl.752, El.1150, Or.826, 965, etc.: c. acc. cogn., ἰαχεῖν μέλος, αἴλινον, Id.Tr.515, HF349; [ἀοιδάν] Ar.Ra.217; “χρησμόν” IG7.4240b2.
2. rarely c. acc. obj., bewail, “νέκυν ὀλόμενον” E.Ph.1295, cf. [1523]:—Pass., κᾷτ᾽ ἰαχήθης . . ἄδικος thou wert proclaimed . . , Id.Hel.1147 (prob. for καὶ ἰαχὴ σή . . ).
II. of things, sound, “γαῖα σμερδαλέον ἰάχησεν” h.Hom.28.11; “τρίποδες ἰαχεῦσι” Call.Del.146, cf. Orph.A.997, etc.; “ὀλολύγματα ἰαχεῖ” E.Heracl. 783. [α^ in Ep.: α_^ in Trag. (it is unnecessary to write ἰακχ- when a is long): α_ in IG l.c.: Ϝι^, cf. sq.]
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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