ἀνηυφήμησεν οἰμωγῇ: the verb can bear this sense even without a defining addition: Eur. Or.1335“ἀνευφημεῖ δόμος” (of wailing): Plat. Phaedo60 A “ἀνηυφήμησε” (Xanthippè). The notion is that of a cry which expresses religious awe. Cp. Matthew Arnold, Mycerinus: ‘And one loud cry of grief and of amaze | Broke from his sorrowing people.’
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Sophocles: The Plays and Fragments, with critical notes, commentary, and translation in English prose. Part V: The Trachiniae. Sir Richard C. Jebb. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 1902.
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