The corpus record

κεραύν-ιος

keraunios

of a thunderbolt

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Where it lives

Bacchae 2 · 2.66/10k
Seven Against Thebes 1 · 1.99/10k
Prometheus Bound 1 · 1.7/10k
De Mundo 1 · 1.58/10k
Trojan Women 1 · 1.41/10k
Antigone 1 · 1.36/10k

What it meant

κεραύν-ιος · keraun-ios — LSJ

of a thunderbolt, by the thunderbolt, heliotrope

of a thunderbolt, βολαί A. l.c.; φλόξ Id. Pr. 1017; πέμφιξ S. Fr. 538; πῦρ, λαμπάδες, E. Tr. 80, Ba. 244; θάνατος death by the thunderbolt, Call. Aet. 3.1.64 [Fr. 75.64 Pf.]; λίθος heliotrope, PHolm. 10.37, Porph. VP 17, cf. Plin. HN 37.132.

2 thunder-smitten, ‘thunder-splitten peaks’

thunder-smitten, of Semele, S. Ant. 1139 (lyr.), E. Ba. 6; Καπανέως κ. δέμας Id. Supp. 496; τὰ Κεραύνια the ‘thunder-splitten peaks’, name of several mountain ridges, Str. 6.3.5, etc.

3 bandage

κεραύνιος, ὁ, kind of bandage, Sor. Fasc. 37.

= κεραύνειος, [Ζεύς] Arist. Mu. 401a17, Milet. 1(7).278; applied to Philip, AP 6.115 (Antip. <Sid.>).

In the wild

κεραυνίᾳ · kerauniai Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 1014–1019
κεραυνίους · keraunious Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 430–431
κεραύνιός · keraunios Aristotle, De Mundo (DIORISIS sentence 170)
κεραυνίῳ · kerauniōi Euripides, Bacchae 88–93
κεραυνίου · kerauniou Euripides, Bacchae 288–290
κεραυνίους · keraunious Euripides, Trojan Women (DIORISIS sentence 52)

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