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κολόκυ_μα , ατος, τό,
A.large heavy wave before it breaks, swell that is the forerunner of a storm: metaph., of the swelling threats of Cleon, Ar.Eq.692 (expld. as κόλον κῦμα, Sch.ad loc.; τυφλὸν κῦμα, Hsch.; κωφὸν κῦμα, Suid.).
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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