βροντ-ή, ἡ,
thunder, Διὸς μεγάλοιο κεραυνὸν δεινήν τε β. [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.199; ὑπὸ βροντῆς πατρὸς Διός 13.796; Ζηνός τε βροντῇ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 20.121 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἀστραπὴ καὶ β. [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.86; β. στεροπῇ τε 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 34 (_anapaest meter_); β. καὶ κεραυνίᾳ φλογί [prev. author] “Pr.” 1017; βροντῆς μύκημα [prev. work] 1062 (_anapaest meter_), compare 1083 (_anapaest meter_)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; β. δ᾽ ἐρράγη δι᾽ ἀστραπῆς [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 578, etc.: in _plural_, [prev. author] “OC” 1514, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 1.6.28, 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Signis Tempestatum” 21, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; χθόνιαι β. [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 1745: _metaphorically_, τούτου τὰς β. οἶδ᾽ ὅτι δείσεις 4th c.AD: Libanius Sophista “Epistulae” 98.4. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II the state of one struck with thunder, astonishment, ἐπεάν σφι θεὸς ἐμβάλῃ β. [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.10.έ. ] Refs 5th c.BC+] (βρομτᾱ, compare βρέμω.)