The simile is so confused as to be practically unintelligible. From 9 it would seem that the frequency of Agamemnon's groans is compared to the frequency of flashes of lightning a singularly pointless comparison. It would perhaps be possible to take a)stra/pthi as implying thunder, so that Agamemnon is made to groan like a thunderstorm; but this is turgid and tasteless. *h)u/komos is nowhere else applied to Hera.
