The corpus record

σκηπτός

skeptos · ὁ

thunderbolt

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Where it lives

De Mundo 2 · 3.15/10k
Persians 1 · 1.96/10k
Rhesus 1 · 1.86/10k
Antigone 1 · 1.36/10k
On the Crown 1 · 0.51/10k
Anabasis 1 · 0.18/10k

What it meant

σκηπτός · skēptos — LSJ

thunderbolt, storm, hurricane, falling like a thunderbolt

thunderbolt (σκηπτοὶ [λέγονται τῶν κεραυνῶν] ὅσοι κατασκήπτουσιν εἰς τὴν γῆν Arist. Mu. 395a28), X. An. 3.1.11; τάρβος . . ὡς ἀπὸ σ. Aret. SD 1.6: metaph. also of a dust-storm, S. Ant. 418; hurricane, D. 18.194, Jul. Or. 1.35b; λοιμοῦ σ. A. Pers. 715 (troch.); of war, E. Andr. 1046 (lyr.), Rh. 674; καλοῦσί μʼ οἱ νεώτεροι . . σκηπτόν, says a parasite, Antiph. 195.11; σ. πόθος falling like a thunderbolt, Aspasia ap. Ath. 5.219e.

In the wild

σκηπτὸς · skēptos Aeschylus, Persians 715
σκηπτὸς · skēptos Aristotle, De Mundo (DIORISIS sentence 77)
σκηπτοὶ · skēptoi Aristotle, De Mundo (DIORISIS sentence 78)
σκηπτὸς · skēptos Demosthenes, On the Crown 194 (DIORISIS sentence 554)
σκηπτοῦ · skēptou Euripides, Rhesus (DIORISIS sentence 406)
σκηπτόν · skēpton Sophocles, Antigone 417–420

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Where it came from

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