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[865] καύματος ἔξ, after hot weather; so scholia. Cf. Herod.i. 87 “ἐκ δὲ αἰθρίης τε καὶ νηνεμίης συνδραμεῖν ἐξαπίνης νέφεα”. It is hardly possible to get any good sense if we join “ἐξ” with “ἀνέμοιο”. It is not easy to say what the phenomenon meant may be; perhaps a whirlwind of dust raised by the scirocco. Others take it to be a thunder-cloud ‘standing out to the eye from the other clouds.’ Or it may simply mean ‘a black darkness (murky air) coming from (i.e. caused by) clouds’ of a thunderstorm.

The Iliad, edited, with apparatus criticus, prolegomena, notes, and appendices. Walter Leaf. London. Macmillan. 1900.

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