φθόγγ-ος, ὁ
(both poetical and Prose), any clear, distinct sound, especially voice of men, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.234, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; of the Sirens, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 12.41, 159; φθόγγῳ ἐπερχόμεναι 18.199; φ. ἀραῖον οἴκοις 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 237 (Lyric poetry); γόων οὐκ ἀσήμονες φ. 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1669 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; φ. οἰκείου κακοῦ voice, telling of.., [[ [prev. author] “Ant.” 1187; τὸν Αἵμονος φ. [prev. work] 1218, compare 1214 ] Refs]; of birds, ἀλεκτρυόνων φ. [[ 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 864; ἀγνῶτα.. φ. ὀρνίθων 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 1001, compare 424; φθόγγος οὔτ᾽ ὀρνίθων οὔτε θαλάσσης 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 9 (_anapaest meter_); κυνῶν καὶ προβάτων καὶ ὀρνέων 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 397a. ] Refs 6th c.BC+]
__2 speech, Ἑλλάδος φθόγγον χέουσαν [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 73 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; φ. ἔμμετρος, opposed to πεζά, poetical speech, [[ 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “D.” 3.13] Refs 1st c.BC+]; utterance, saying, [[ Trag.Adesp. 417. ] Refs]
__II generally, sound, ἀνέμων [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Simonides Lyricus 37.11; δαίμονος πεδαρσίου.. πτερωτὸς φ. 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 1198 (= “Tragica Adespota” 47)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; φωνῆς μὲν οὔ, φθόγγου δὲ μετέχοντά τινος, of semi-vowels, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Philebus” 18c, compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Audibilibus” 801b2, 804b9; ἄνευ φθόγγου καὶ ἠχῆς 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 37b, compare 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Epistulae” 1p.32U.; εἰς τοὺς φ. καὶ τὰς συλλαβάς 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Cratylus” 389d, compare 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Alexander” 27, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 15.6. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]