βροντ-άω,
thunder, Ζεὺς δ᾽ ἄμυδις βρόντησε [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 14.305, compare 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.133; βροντᾶν οὐκ ἐμὸν ἀλλὰ Διός 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Fragmenta” 490 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; so Βροντῶν, title of Zeus in Phrygia, [[ “JHS” 5.258, etc. (but βροντῶν θεός] Refs], = Jupiter Tonans, [[ Inscriptiones Graecae 14.982, compare 2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 54.4): _metaphorically_ of Pericles, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 531, compare “V.” 624 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of a seller asking too high a price, [[ 3rd c.BC: Herodas Mimographus 7.65. ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]
__2 impersonal, χειμέρια βροντᾷ it thunders, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Fragmenta” 46 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; βροντήσαντος if it thunders, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 610b35. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__II passive, to be thunderstruck, [[ [prev. author] “Div.Somn.” 463a13. ] Refs]