and [sc. also attested is the nominative singular] r(iph/: a whirlwind.[1]
Electra says about [sc. her father] Agamemnon:[2] "but I will never cease from lamentations and wretched wailings, as long as I can see the brilliant flashings of the stars; and I see this day, like some child-destroying nightingale before these paternal doors with cries to utter a sound to all." The sense [is]: but I will not cease from lamentations either day or night, groaning, as long as I can see night and daylight, so as not in the manner of the nightingale to utter a sound of the lamentations before my father's doors.[3]