The corpus record

βροντάω

brontao

thunder, Jupiter Tonans, it thunders

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Where it lives

De Divinatione per Somnum 1 · 8.34/10k
Clouds 3 · 3.12/10k
Wasps 3 · 3.08/10k
Bacchae 2 · 2.66/10k
Odae 1 · 2.46/10k
Job 3 · 2.25/10k
Birds 2 · 1.88/10k
Theogony 1 · 1.45/10k
Acharnians 1 · 1.41/10k
Philoctetes 1 · 1.14/10k
Regnorum I 2 · 1.08/10k
Regnorum II 1 · 0.62/10k

Densest 12 of 20 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

βροντ-άω · bront-aō — LSJ

thunder, Jupiter Tonans

thunder, Ζεὺς δʼ ἄμυδις βρόντησε Od. 14.305, cf. Il. 8.133; βροντᾶν οὐκ ἐμὸν ἀλλὰ Διός Call. Fr. 490; so Βροντῶν, title of Zeus in Phrygia, JHS 5.258, etc. (but βροντῶν θεός, = Jupiter Tonans, IG 14.982, cf. D.C. 54.4): metaph. of Pericles, Ar. Ach. 531, cf. V. 624; of a seller asking too high a price, Herod. 7.65.

2 it thunders, if it thunders

impers., χειμέρια βροντᾷ it thunders, Ar. Fr. 46; βροντήσαντος if it thunders, Arist. HA 610b35.

II to be thunderstruck

Pass., to be thunderstruck, Id. Div.Somn. 463a13.

In the wild

ἐβρόντα · ebronta Aristophanes, Acharnians *dikaio/polos.530 (DIORISIS sentence 409)
βροντάτω · brontatō Aristophanes, Birds 570 (DIORISIS sentence 464)
βροντήσας · brontēsas Aristophanes, Birds (DIORISIS sentence 470)
βροντῶσι · brontōsi Aristophanes, Clouds 375 (DIORISIS sentence 324)
βροντᾷ · brontai Aristophanes, Clouds 390 (DIORISIS sentence 337)
βροντῶμεν · brontōmen Aristophanes, Clouds (DIORISIS sentence 441)

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