ἄφων-ος, ον,
(φωνή) voiceless, dumb, [[ 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 669, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.85, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.191; ῥήτωρ 4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 196.14; κακὸν ἄ. “Comica Adespota” 8 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator ] Refs 6th c.BC+]; stronger than ἄναυδος (which see), [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἐπιδημίαι” 3.17. ; εἴδωλα NT.1Cor.12.2] NT+5th c.BC+]; unable to speak, of a child, [[ 7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica 118: with _genitive_, ἄ. τῆσδε τῆς ἀρᾶς] Refs 7th c.BC+] unable to utter it, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 865] Refs 5th c.BC+]. adverb -νως[[[prev. work] 131 (Lyric poetry)] Refs]: neuter plural as adverb, ἄφωνα σημανοῦσιν.. ὡς.. [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 819. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__2 with a poor voice, τραγῳδός[[ 2nd c.BC: Dionysius Thrax Grammaticus 631.21. ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]
__3 intestate, [[ Tab.Heracl. 1.151. ] Refs]
__4 ἄφωνα (i.e. γράμματα, στοιχεῖα) consonants, ἄ. καὶ φωνοῦντα (perhaps ἄ. φωνήεντα) [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 578.2; τοῖς ἄλλοις φωνήεσί τε καὶ ἄ. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Cratylus” 393e; τὸ σῖγμα τῶν ἀ. ἐστί [prev. author] “Tht.” 203b] Refs 5th c.BC+]: but especially of mutes, τὰ ἄφθογγα καὶ ἄ.[[ [prev. author] “Phlb.” 18c, compare “Cra.” 424c] Refs]; opposed to ἡμίφωνα, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Poetica” 1456b28, compare 1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “περὶ ποιημάτων” 2.16, “Herc.” 994.28, 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Compositione Verborum” 14, 2nd c.BC: Dionysius Thrax Grammaticus 631.20, 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “adversus Mathematicos” 1.102.] Refs 4th c.BC+]