The corpus record

ἀμβολάδην

amboladen

bubbling up

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Where it lives

Iliad 1 · 0.09/10k
Histories 1 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

ἀμβολ-άδην · ambol-adēn — LSJ

bubbling up, by jets, capriciously

bubbling up, ὡς δὲ λέβης ζεῖ ἔνδον . . πάντοθεν ἀ. Il. 21.364, cf. Hdt. 4.181: metaph., by jets, i.e. capriciously, AP 10.70 (Maced.).

II like an ἀναβολή, prelude

like an ἀναβολή or prelude, h.Merc. 426, Pi. N. 10.31.

In the wild

ἀμβολάδην · amboladēn Herodotus, Histories 4.181.4 (DIORISIS sentence 5217)
ἀμβολάδην · amboladēn Iliad 21.364

Where it came from

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