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ῥοιβδ-έω

roibdeo

move with a whistling

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Where it lives

  • Eumenides 1 · 1.91/10k
  • Odyssey 1 · 0.12/10k

What it meant — LSJ

move with a whistling, rustling sound, letting, rustle, whistle

move with a whistling or rustling sound, ῥοιβδοῦσα κόλπον αἰγίδος letting the swelling aegis rustle (as she flies), A. Eu. 404: intr., of wind, whistle, ῥοιβδήσας Εὖρος AP 7.636 (Crin.).

II suck down

suck down, of Charybdis, Od. 12.106; κῦμα δʼ ἐρροίβδει μέγα σύνεγγυς ἡμῶν Ezek. Exag. 237, cf. Aristid. Or. 46(3).38.

2 cause to gush forth

cause to gush forth, ὅταν . . κρηναῖον ἐξ ἄμμοιο -ήση γάνος Lyc. 247. (In signf. II ῥυβδέω shd. perh. be written, cf. ἀναρροιβδέω; signf. I is found also in ἀπορροιβδέω, ἐπιρροιβδέω.)

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Where it came from

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