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ἰώ , an exclam., chiefly in dramatic poetry (lyr.); freq. repeated twice, rarely three times, as A.Supp.125; esp. in invoking aid, ἰ. μάκαρες, ἰ. θεοί, Id.Th.96, S.Ph.736;
A.“ἰ. ἰ. Παιάν” Id.Tr.222; “ἰ. Βάκχαι” E.Ba.578.
2. freq. also of grief or suffering, oh! “ἰ. δύστανος” S. Ant.850; “ἰ. μοί μοι” Id.OC199, etc.; “ἰ. κακοπάρθενε Μοῖρα” AP7.468 (Mel.); ἰ. Σπάρτα ib.434 (Diosc.): c. gen., “ἰ., πάτερ, σοῦ τῶν τε . . τέκνων” A.Ag.1305; “ἰ. μοι πόνων” E.Ph.1290; “ἰ. ἰ. τραυμάτων” Ar.Ach. 1205.
3. rarely in Prose, ἰ., φασί τινες, of an objector, Gal.Thras. 32.
II. with other Interj., “ἰ. ὢ ὤ” S.OC224; “ἒ ἒ ἰ.” Id.El.840. [ι^: yet sts. ι_, in anap., A.Ag.1455, S.El.149, E.Alc.741.]
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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