A.sound, tone, prop., the sound of the voice, whether of men or animals with lungs and throat (“ἡ φωνὴ ψόφος τίς ἐστιν ἐμψύχου” Arist.de An.420b5, cf. 29, HA535a27, PA664b1); opp. φθόγγος (v. “φθόγγος” 11):
I. mostly of human beings, speech, voice, utterance, “φ. ἄρρηκτος” Il.2.490; “ἀτειρέα φ.” 17.555; φ. δέ οἱ αἰθέρ᾽ ἵκανεν, of Ajax' battle-cry, 15.686; of the battle-cry of an army, “Τρώων καὶ Ἀχαιῶν . . φ. δεινὸν ἀϋσάντων” 14.400: pl., of the cries of market-people, X.Cyr.1.2.3; “ὁ τόνος τῆς φ.” Id.Cyn.6.20, D.18.280, Aeschin.3.209; ὀξεῖα, βαρυτέρα, λεία, τραχεῖα φ., Pl.Ti.67b; “φ. μαλακή” Ar.Nu.979 (anap.); μιαρά, ἀναιδής, Id.Eq.218,638: with Verbs, “φωνὴν ῥῆξαι” Hdt.1.85, Ar.Nu.357 (anap.); “φ. ἱέναι” Hdt.2.2, 4.23, Pl.Phdr.259d, etc.; “φ. ἥσει” E.HF1295; “προΐεσθαι” Aeschin.2.23; “ἀρθροῦν” X.Mem.1.4.12; “διαρθρώσασθαι” Pl.Prt.322a; “ἐντείνασθαι” Aeschin.2.157; “φ. ἐπαρεῖ” D.19.336; “φωνῇ” with his voice, aloud, Il.3.161, Pi.P.9.29; “εἶπε τῇ φωνῇ τὰ ἀπόρρητα” Lys.6.51; “διὰ ζώσης φωνῆς” Anon.Geog.Epit.1p.488M.; μιᾷ φ. with one voice, Luc. Nigr.14; ἀπὸ φωνῆς, c. gen., dictated by . . , Choerob.in Thd.1.103 tit., Marin. in Euc.Dat.p.234 M., Olymp. in Grg.p.1 N., Pall. in Hp.2.1 D.: pl., αἱ φ. the notes of the voice, Pl.Grg.474e; “σχήμασι καὶ φωναῖς” Arist. Rh.1306a32: prov., φωνῇ ὁρᾶν, of a blind man, S.OC138 (anap.); πᾶσαν, τὸ λεγόμενον, φ. ἱέντα, i.e. using every effort, Pl.Lg.890d, cf. Euthd.293a; “πάσας ἀφιέναι φωνάς” Id.R.475a, D.18.195; “φωνὰς ἀπρεπεῖς προΐεντο” PTeb.802.15 (ii B. C.).
2. the cry of animals, as of swine, dogs, oxen, Od.10.239, 12.86,396; of asses, Hdt.4.129; of the nightingale, song, Od.19.521; “ἄνθρωπος πολλὰς φωνὰς ἀφίησι, τὰ δὲ ἄλλα μίαν” Arist.Pr.895a4.
3. any articulate sound, opp. inarticulate noise (ψόφος）“, φ. κωκυμάτων” S.Ant.1206; “ὥσπερ φωνῆς οὔσης κατὰ τὸν ἀέρα πολλάκις καὶ λόγου ἐν τῇ φωνῇ” Plot.6.4.12: “στοιχεῖόν ἐστι φ. ἀδιαίρετος” Arist.Po.1456b22; also esp. of vowelsound, opp. to that of consonants, Pl.Tht.203b, Arist.HA535a32; in literary criticism, of sound, opp. meaning, Phld.Po.5.20 (pl.), 21.
4. of sounds made by inanimate objects, mostly Poet., “κερκίδος φ.” S.Fr.595; “συρίγγων” E.Tr.127 (lyr.); “αὐλῶν” Mnesim.4.56 (anap.); rare in early Prose, “ὀργάνων φωναί” Pl.R.397a; freq. in LXX, “ἡ φ. τῆς σάλπιγγος” LXX Ex.20.18; φ. βροντῆς ib. Ps.103(104).7; “ἡ φ. αὐτοῦ ὡς φ. ὑδάτων πολλῶν” Apoc.1.15.
II. faculty of speech, discourse, “εἰ φωνὴν λάβοι” S.El.548; “παρέσχε φωνὴν τοῖς ἀφωνήτοις τινά” Id.OC1283.
2. language, hdt.4.114, 117; “φ. ἀνθρωπηΐη” Id.2.55; “ἀγνῶτα φ. βάρβαρον” A.Ag.1051; “φωνὴν ἥσομεν Παρνησίδα” Id.Ch.563, cf. E.Or.1397 (lyr.), Th.6.5, 7.57, X.Cyn.2.3, Pl.Ap.17d, etc.; “τῶν βαρβάρων πρὶν μαθεῖν τὴν φ.” Id.Tht.163b; “κατὰ τὴν Ἀττικὴν τὴν παλαιὰν φ.” Id.Cra. 398d, cf. 409e.
III. phrase, saying, “τὴν Σιμωνίδου φ.” Id.Prt. 341b; “ἡ τοῦ Σωκράτους φ.” Plu.2.106b, cf. 330f, etc.; of formulae, “στοιχειώματα καὶ φ.” Epicur.Ep.1p.4U., cf. Sent.Vat.41 (= Metrod. Fr.59); “αἱ σκεπτικαὶ φ.” S.E.P.1.14, cf. Jul.Or.5.162b, etc.
IV. report, rumour, LXXGe.45.16.
b. message, Sammelb.7252.21 (iii/iv A. D.).
V. loud talk, bragging, Epicur.Sent.Vat. 45.
