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Multiple entries for this lemma:
iô, interj. [iô], expressing joy, ho! huzza! hurra! io hymen hymenaee, io hymen, Plaut. Cas. 4.3.3; id. Ps. 2.4.11: miles, io, magna voce, triumphe, canet, Tib. 2, 5, 121 (118): io triumphe! Hor. C. 4.2.49: io, io, liber ad te venio, Plin. Ep. 3, 9.--

II. Expressing pain, oh! ah! io! enicas me miserum, Plaut. Truc. 1.2.21: uror, io, remove saeva puella faces! Tib. 2, 4, 6.--

III. Used in a sudden or vehement call, holla! look! quick! io! matres, audite, Verg. A. 7.400: io! comites, his retia tendite silvis, Ov. M. 4.513; id. A. A. 3, 742.



Îô, Iûs, and Îôn, Iônis, f., = Iô, a daughter of Inachus, king of Argos, beloved by Jupiter, and changed, through fear of Juno, into a cow; afterwards worshipped as an Egyptian deity, under the name of Isis. --Form Io, Ov. H. 14, 85; Prop. 2, 28 (3, 24), 17; Ov. M. 1.588 sq.; Val. Fl. 4, 351 sq.; Hyg. Fab. 145.--Gen. Ius, Nemes. Cyn. 31.--Acc. Io, Ov. M. 1.588; Amm. 2, 19, 29.--Abl. Io, Prop. 2, 13, 19.--Form Ion; dat. Ioni, Plaut. Aul. 3.6.20.--Acc. Ionem, Serv. Verg. A. 3.153.