Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

κεραύνιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κεραύνιος κεραύνιᾱ κεραύνιον

Structure: κεραυνι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. of a thunderbolt
  2. thunder-smitten

Examples

  • ἀλλ’ ἑρ́π’ Ὄλυμπον καὶ κεραυνίουσ βολὰσ λαβοῦσα πατρὸσ ἐκ χερῶν καραδόκει, ὅταν στράτευμ’ Ἀργεῖον ἐξιῇ κάλωσ. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode 2:33)
  • τὰσ δ’ ἀστραπάσ τε καὶ κεραυνίουσ βολὰσ μεσημβρινοῖσι θάλπεσιν προσῄκασεν· (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, choral, strophe 1 1:4)

Synonyms

  1. of a thunderbolt

  2. thunder-smitten

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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