βροντάω

brontao

thunder

Appears 21 times across Aristotle's works.

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Meteorology 7
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Book II 6
Chapter 9 369a10–370a33

369a10
369b8
369b19
369b29
370a22
370a33
Book III 1
Chapter 1 370b3–371b17

371b14
Posterior Analytics 4
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Book II 4
Chapter 8 93a1–93b20

93b8

Chapter 10 93b29–94a19

94a3
94a7

Chapter 11 94a20–95a9

94b32
History of Animals 3
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Book VI 1
Chapter 2 559a15–561a3

560a4
Book VIII 1
Chapter 20 602b20–603a29

602b23
Book IX 1
Chapter 3 610b20–611a4

610b35
Rhetoric 2
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Book II 2
Chapter 19 1392a8–1393a22

1392b27
1392b30
On the Heavens 1
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Book II 1
Chapter 9 290b12–291a28

290b35
De Anima 1
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Book II 1
Chapter 12 424a17–424b18

424b11
De Mundo 1
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Chapter 4 394a7–396a32

395a16
On Divination in Sleep 1
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Chapter 1 462b12–463b11

463a13
Metaphysics 1
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Book Ζ 1
Chapter 17 1041a6–1041b33

1041a25

Dictionary (LSJ)

βροντάω, A. 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. impers., χειμέρια βροντᾷ it thunders, Ar. Fr. 46; βροντήσαντος if it thunders, Arist. HA 610b35. II. Pass., to be thunderstruck, Id. Div.Somn. 463a13.

Key passages & sense analysis (Bonitz)

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