cloud-gatherer

A glance at the map will show that Montalto must be a cloud-gatherer, drawing to its flanks every wreath of vapour that rises from Ionian and

Old Calabria Norman Douglas 1910

And when it was the third watch of the night, and the stars had crossed the zenith, Zeus the cloud-gatherer roused against them an angry wind with wondrous tempest, and shrouded in clouds land and sea alike, and from heaven sped down the night.

Book XII Homer 1909

And Zeus the cloud-gatherer answered her, and said, ‘My child, what word hath escaped the door of thy lips?

Book I Homer 1909

‘And Zeus the cloud-gatherer answered him, saying: “Helios, do thou, I say, shine on amidst the deathless gods, and amid mortal men upon the earth, the grain-giver.

Book XII Homer 1909

And Zeus the cloud-gatherer answered and said to her: "Go to now, set upon him Athene driver of the spoil, who most is wont to bring sore pain upon him."

The Iliad 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1882

But, if thou wilt, learn also this, that thou mayest well know our lineage, known to full many men: First Zeus the cloud-gatherer begat Dardanos, and he stablished Dardania, for not yet was holy Ilios built upon the plain to be a city of mortal men, but still they dwelt on slopes of many-fountained Ida.

The Iliad 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1882

So spake she; but Zeus the cloud-gatherer said no word to her, and sat long time in silence.

The Iliad 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1882

And Athene, daughter of aegis-bearing Zeus, cast down at her father's threshold her woven vesture many-coloured, that herself had wrought and her hands had fashioned, and put on her the tunic of Zeus the cloud-gatherer, and arrayed her in her armour for dolorous battle.

The Iliad 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1882

And to him strong Diomedes spake in answer: "Verily will I abide and endure, but short will be all our profit, for Zeus, the cloud-gatherer, clearly desireth to give victory to the Trojans rather than to us."

The Iliad 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1882

And Zeus the cloud-gatherer answered her, and said, 'My child, what word hath escaped the door of thy lips?

The Odyssey 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1878