Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

κεραυνοβόλος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κεραυνοβόλος κεραυνοβόλον

Structure: κεραυνοβολ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: cf. kerauno/bolos

Sense

  1. hurling the thunder

Examples

  • ἆ ἆ, πῦρ οὐ λεύσσεισ, οὐδ’ αὐγάζῃ, Σεμέλασ ἱερὸν ἀμφὶ τάφον, ἅν ποτε κεραυνόβολοσ ἔλιπε φλόγα Δίου βροντᾶσ; (Euripides, episode, lyric1)
  • προστιθέασι δὲ καὶ διότι δρυμώδησ ὁ τόποσ καὶ κεραυνόβολοσ, καὶ ὅτι ἐνταῦθα οἱ Ἄριμοι· (Strabo, Geography, Book 13, chapter 4 9:4)

Synonyms

  1. hurling the thunder

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

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