ψόφ-ος, ὁ,
noise (properly of one thing striking against another, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Anima” 420a21 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; or of insects, which produce a sound, but not by the larynx, [[ [prev. author] “HA” 535a28 ] Refs]; opposed to φωνή, [[ [prev. author] “de An.” 420b29, “HA” 535b31, +others] Refs]; ψόφος μόνον [τὸ σῖγμα] [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 203b, compare “Lg.” 669d, 4th c.BC: Aristoxenus Musicus cited in 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Compositione Verborum” 14); first in “hymnus ad Mercurium” 285, ἄτερ ψόφο; γλώσσης ψ. 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hercules Furens” 229; φιλημάτων 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 537; ψόφοι ἀνέμων 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 397a ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of rolling stones, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 4.2.4 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of footsteps, ψόφῳ τῷ ἐκ τοῦ προσιέναι αὐτοὺς ἀντιπαταγοῦντος τοῦ ἀνέμου [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.22, compare 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.218 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of knocking at a door, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 604 (Lyric poetry), 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 212c; compare ψοφέω 11 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; crash of a falling building, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.115 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; also of musical instruments, λωτοῦ, κιθάρας, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 687, “Cyc.” 443 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of a trumpet, [[ 2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 2.21.3. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__2 mere sound, noise, τοῦ σοῦ ψ. οὐκ ἂν στραφείην your noise will never turn me, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1116; κενὸς ψ. 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Rhesus” 565; εὐδοξία ψόφος ἐστὶ μαινομένων ἀνθρώπων 4th c.BC: Diogenes Cynicus Philosophus cited in 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Epicteti Dissertationes” 1.24.6 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ψόφοι mere sounds, of high-sounding words or names, ὁ μὴ φρονῶν.. ψόφοις ἁλίσκεται [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 737, compare 4th c.AD: Alciphro Epistolographus 2.3, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “DMeretr.” 15.3, 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Epicteti Dissertationes” 2.6.19 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; ψόφου πλέως, of Aeschylus, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 1367 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὁ ψ. τῶν ῥημάτων, of his language, [[ [prev. author] “Ra.” 492. ] Refs]