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Keraunos
Adler number: kappa,1379
Translated headword: thunderbolt
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] a lightning-flash.[1]
[There is] a proverb.[2]
Aristophanes [writes]: "if the thunderbolt strikes the perjured, how then has it not burned
Simon and Cleonymus and Theorus? And yet they are very much perjured."[3] Of thunderbolts, some [are] descending, others -- the ones which destroy by touching [i.e. burning] smoky, others are called vivid."[4]
Greek Original:Keraunos: hê astrapê. paroimia. Aristophanês: ei ballei tous epiorkous ho keraunos, pôs ouchi Simôna kai Kleônumon kai Theôron eneprêse; kaitoi sphodr' eisin epiorkoi. tôn de keraunôn hoi men kataibatai, hoi de psoloentes hoi têi psausei olluntes, hoi de argêtes kalountai.
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Keywords: biography; comedy; daily life; definition; epic; ethics; imagery; law; politics; proverbs; religion; science and technology
Translated by: Ryan Stone on 29 July 2008@17:59:25.
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