φωνή φωνή, ἡ, φάω a sound, tone, properly the sound of the voice, mostly of men, Lat. vox, Hom., etc.; of a battlecry, Xen.; φωνὴν ῥηγνύναι, Virgilʼs rumpere vocem, to utter an articulate sound, Hdt., Ar.; φ. ἱέναι, Lat. vocem edere, Hdt., etc.: pl. αἱ φ. the tones of the voice, Plat.:—proverb., φωνῇ ὁρᾶν, of a blind man, Soph. the voice or cry of animals, Od., Hdt., etc. any articulate sound, as opp. to inarticulate (ψόφος) , Soph., etc. of sounds from inanimate objects, φ. συρίγγων Eur.; ὀργάνων Plat. the faculty of speech, discourse, Lat. sermo, Soph. language, Lat. lingua, Hdt. a kind of language, dialect, Aesch., Thuc., etc. a phrase, saying, τὴν Σιμωνίδου φ. Plat.