A.sound in answer, reply, rejoin, abs., A.Eu.303, S.Ant. 271, etc.; esp. answer in a loud voice, Plu.Mar.19, etc.
2. c. acc. cogn., ἀ. ἔπος utter a word in reply, S.Aj.773; “πόλλ᾽ ἀ.” Id.El.1501; ἀ. Ἔρωτας, of a lute, sound love strains in reply, Anacreont.23.9.
4. answer by letter, “τινί” Plb.8.16.11, POxy.805 (i B.C.), al.: abs., Plb.8.17.8:—Pass., to be received in answer, “ἐκ Ῥώμης” Id.15.18.6, cf. J.AJ 14.10.26; but -πεφωνημένα ἐκ τῶν δημοσίων δέλτων ἀντίγραφα copies taken from . ., OGI453.26 (M. Antonius).
5. controvert, disagree with, “τινί” S.E.M.7.327; to be discordant with, “-φωνοῦντος τοῦ νῦν βίου τῷ βιβλίῳ” Luc.Apol.4.
II. legal t. t., = constituere, Anon.de Actionibus in Zeitschr.d.Savigny-Stiftung1893p.92.