Of a wind that has been shut up in the cavities of the earth ... [and the view is] that some of them cause fissures, but others [cause] shaking motions.[1]
Aelian [writes]: "and earthquakes were common and overturned everything."[2]
Aristophanes [writes]: "with a Titanic blast;" meaning a big one, so as to cause earthquakes. For [it was] an ancient notion that the earth, shut in by winds, was shaken.[3] See [about] kinds of earthquakes in the [entry for] e)ktinagmo/s.[4] See under Diktus.[5]
But sismo/s ["hissing"] [is] a certain kind of sound [made by] hot iron put into water: from [the verb] si/zw ["I hiss"], I make a certain sound.[6]