A.strong, mighty, epith. of Ares, Il.5.845, al. ; of Achilles, 19.408 ; of Hector, 8.473 ; also of things, “ὄ. ἔγχος” 3.357, etc. ; “ἄχθος” Od.9.233 ; θυρεός, λίθος, ib.241, 305 ; “ὕδωρ” Il.4.453 ; ἐβρόντησε ὄβριμον he thundered mightily, Hes.Th. 839 ; ὄ. ἔργα deeds of might, Tyrt.11.27.—Ep. word, rare in Trag., “ἄνδρες ὄ.” A.Th.794 ; “μῖσος ὄ.” Id.Ag.1411(lyr.) ; “Ἰδαία μᾶτερ ὀ.” E. l. c. —The form ὄμβριμος is a freq. f.l., as in Il.5.845, al., Pi.O.4.8,P.9.27, A.Th.l. c. (Cf. βριμός: μέγας, χαλεπός, Hsch., to which ὄβριμος may be related as Ὀβριμώ [ι_] Lyc.698 to Βριμώ, Ὀβριαρεύς to Βριαρεύς, EM 346.41, and Ὀβριάρεως to Βριάρεως ; cf. also βρίμη, βριμάομαι, βριαρός.）
ὄβρι^μος , ον, also α, ον E.Or.1454 (lyr.) :—
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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