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[Meaning] rain with winds, and darkness.[1]
"He, like some maritime storm or a violent thunderbolt, suddenly pounced [...]."[2]
And elsewhere: "the boreal northwind, bearing down with a gust, broke the yard-arm".[3] ['Boreal' means stemming] out of Boreas.[4]
Also [sc. attested] in the feminine gender. "And a terrible storm falling".[5]

*lai=lay: met' a)ne/mwn o)/mbros, kai\ sko/tos. o( de\ oi(=a/ tis lai=lay e)piqala/ttios h)\ r(agdai=os skhpto\s e)capinai/ws e)pefoi/thse. kai\ au)=qis: lai/lapi borrai/h| klasqe\n e)pei=de ke/ras. th=| e)k tou= borra=. kai\ qhlukw=s. lai/lay e)peispesou=sa deinh/.

[1] Likewise or similarly in other lexica (and several Homeric scholia); see the references at Photius lambda29 Theodoridis.
[2] A lightly truncated account of the Roman military commander Heraclius's attack on the Persian district of Arzanene (cf. alpha 3833) from Theophylact Simocatta, Historiae 2.7.1; again at sigma 581; cf. de Boor (81) and Whitby (51). On Heraclius see phi 349.
[3] Greek Anthology 6.245.2, attributed to Diodorus, already (approximately) at beta 390. The epigram is a dedication, by the sailor Diogenes, of a promised object to one of the Kabeiroi (cf. kappa 6) during a storm at sea; cf. Gow and Page (vol. I, 234-235; and vol. II, 267-268) and further extracts from this epigram at alpha 664, alpha 1108, and lambda 733.
[4] See generally beta 390.
[5] Quotation unidentifiable. (Adler suggests Symeon Metaphrastes.) The noun lai=lay (or less correctly lai/lay) is normally (not exceptionally) feminine; perhaps the lexicographer was misled by the two-termination adjective e)piqala/ttios 'maritime' earlier in the entry.

C. de Boor, ed., Theophylacti Simocattae Historiae, (Leipzig 1887, reprint 2022)
M. Whitby and M. Whitby, eds. and trans., The History of Theophylact Simocatta, (Oxford 1986)
A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: The Garland of Philip and Some Contemporary Epigrams, vol. I, (Cambridge, 1968)
A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: The Garland of Philip and Some Contemporary Epigrams, vol. II, (Cambridge, 1968)

Catharine Roth (cosmetics, keywords, status) on 22 January 2006@01:37:01.
David Whitehead (modified n.1; cosmetics) on 22 January 2006@04:21:32.
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