σκηπτός

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Menander, Monostichoi, 426
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Transliteration A: skēptós Transliteration B: skēptos Transliteration C: skiptos Beta Code: skhpto/s

English (LSJ)

ὁ, (σκήπτω)

   A thunderbolt (σκηπτοὶ [λέγονται τῶν κεραυνῶν] ὅσοι κατασκήπτουσιν εἰς τὴν γῆν Arist.Mu.395a28), X.An.3.1.11; τάρβος . . ὡς ἀπὸ σ. Aret.SD1.6: 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 μ' οἱ νεώτεροι . . σκηπτόν, says a parasite, Antiph.195.11; σ. πόθος falling like a thunderbolt, Aspasia ap.Ath.5.219e.