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καταιγ-ίζω ,
A.rush down like a storm, “πρὶν καταιγίσαι πνοὰς Ἄρεως” A.Th.63, cf. Str.16.4.5, J.AJ3.5.2, Hld.1.22; στρόμβος καταιγίζων a rushing roaring sound, A.Fr.195; “ἐκνεφίας καταιγίσας ἐς τὴν ἀγοράν” Alex.46.5; “εἰς τοὔψον” Id.247.3; of the sea, AP10.16.9 (Theaet.): metaph., of pain and sickness, Hp.Morb.3.7, 16; of love, AP12.88; of rumour, Ach.Tat.6.10; of drunken frenzy, “τὴν καταιγίζουσαν ἐκ μέθης ζάλην” Com.Adesp.1227.
2. Pass., to be visited by storms, of places, “τοῖς βορέαις” Str.7.4.3, cf. 9.3.15: metaph., “ὁλκὰς θορύβοις -ομένη” Hld.5.24; also, of the sea, “ὅταν ὑπ᾽ ἀνέμου -ίζηται ὁ πόντος” Gal.6.709.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (6):
    • Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, 63
    • Flavius Josephus, Jewish Antiquities, 3.5.2
    • Strabo, Geography, 16.4.5
    • Strabo, Geography, 7.4.3
    • Strabo, Geography, 9.3.15
    • Achilles Tatius, Leucippe et Clitophon, 6.10
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