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ἰσχνό-φωνος , ον,
A.thin-voiced, weak-voiced, Phld. Po.2.25, Gal.17(1).186; of Isocrates, Plu.2.837a; of partridges, Antig.Mir.6; but,
II. having an impediment in one's speech (connected by the Greeks with ἴσχω）“, οἱ ἰ. . . ἴσχονται τοῦ φωνεῖν” Arist.Pr.903a38, cf. 895a15, 905a21, AB100; “ἰ. καὶ τραυλός” Hdt.4.155, cf. Hp.Epid.1.19; “ἰ. καὶ βραδύγλωσσος” LXXEx.4.10, cf. Ezek. Exag.114; also of metals, etc., “χρυσὸς καὶ λίθος ὑπὸ πληρότητος ἰ. καὶ δυσηχῆ” Plu.2.721c: metaph., ἡ φιλία ἰ. γέγονεν ἐν τῷ παρρησιάζεσθαι ib.89b. Adv. -φώνως Zos.Alch.p.108B.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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