φων-ή, ἡ,
sound, tone, properly, the sound of the voice, whether of men or animals with lungs and throat (ἡ φωνὴ ψόφος τίς ἐστιν ἐμψύχου [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Anima” 420b5, compare 29, “HA” 535a27, “PA” 664b1)] Refs 4th c.BC+]; opposed to φθόγγος (see. φθόγγος [[ 11): ] Refs]
__I mostly of human beings, speech, voice, utterance, φ. ἄρρηκτος [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.490; ἀτειρέα φ. 17.555 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; φ. δέ οἱ αἰθέρ᾽ ἵκανεν, of Ajax' battle-cry, [[ 15.686 ] Refs]; of the battle-cry of an army, Τρώων καὶ Ἀχαιῶν.. φ. δεινὸν ἀϋσάντων [[ 14.400 ] Refs]: plural, of the cries of market-people, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.2.3; ὁ τόνος τῆς φ. [prev. author] “Cyn.” 6.20, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.280, 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.209 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὀξεῖα, βαρυτέρα, λεία, τραχεῖα φ., [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 67b; φ. μαλακή 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 979 (_anapaest meter_)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; μιαρά, ἀναιδής, [[ [prev. author] “Eq.” 218, 638: with Verbs, φωνὴν ῥῆξαι 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.85, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 357 (_anapaest meter_); φ. ἱέναι 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.2, 4.23, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 259d, etc.; φ. ἥσει 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hercules Furens” 1295; προΐεσθαι 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 2.23; ἀρθροῦν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 1.4.12; διαρθρώσασθαι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 322a; ἐντείνασθαι 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 2.157; φ. ἐπαρεῖ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.336; φωνῇ ] Refs 5th c.BC+]with his voice, aloud, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.161, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 9.29; εἶπε τῇ φωνῇ τὰ ἀπόρρητα 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 6.51; διὰ ζώσης φωνῆς Anonymus “Geog.Epit.” 1p.488M. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; μιᾷ φ. with one voice, [[ 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Nigr.” 14 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; ἀπὸ φωνῆς, with genitive, dictated by.., [[ 4th-5th c.AD: Choeroboscus Grammaticus “in Thd.” 1.103 at Title Page, 5th-6th c.AD: Marinus Biographus ] Refs 4th c.AD+] in Euc.Dat.p.234 M., [[ 6th c.AD: Olympiodorus Philosophus “in Platonis Gorgiam commentaria - Neue Jahrbücher für Philologie, Suppl.” p.1 N., Palladius Medicus “in Hippocratem” 2.1 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator: _plural_, αἱ φ.] Refs 4th c.BC+] the notes of the voice, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 474e; σχήμασι καὶ φωναῖς 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1306a32: proverbial, φωνῇ ὁρᾶν, of a blind man, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 138 (_anapaest meter_)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; πᾶσαν, τὸ λεγόμενον, φ. ἱέντα, i.e. using every effort, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 890d, compare “Euthd.” 293a; πάσας ἀφιέναι φωνάς [prev. author] “R.” 475a, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.195; φωνὰς ἀπρεπεῖς προΐεντο “PTeb.” 802.15 (2nd c.BC). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]