ἰσχνό-φωνος, ον,
thin-voiced, weak-voiced, [[ 1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “περὶ ποιημάτων” 2.25, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 17(1).186] Refs 1st c.BC+]; of Isocrates, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.837a] Refs 1st c.AD+]; of partridges, [[ 3rd c.BC: Antigonus Carystius Paradoxographus “Mirabilia” 6 ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; but,
__II having an impediment in one's speech (connected by the Greeks with ἴσχω), οἱ ἰ... ἴσχονται τοῦ φωνεῖν [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Problemata” 903a38, compare 895a15, 905a21, “Anecdota Graeca - Bekker” 100; ἰ. καὶ τραυλός 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.155, compare 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἐπιδημίαι” 1.19; ἰ. καὶ βραδύγλωσσος LXX.Exo.4.10, compare 2nd c.BC: Ezekiel Poeta Judaeus “Exagoge - Mnemosyne” 114 ] LXX+5th c.BC+]; also of metals, etc., χρυσὸς καὶ λίθος ὑπὸ πληρότητος ἰ. καὶ δυσηχῆ [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.721c: _metaphorically_, ἡ φιλία ἰ. γέγονεν ἐν τῷ παρρησιάζεσθαι [prev. work]89b. ] Refs 1st c.AD+] adverb -φώνως Zos.Alch.p.108B.