A.“κλαγγί” Ibyc.56: (κλάζω):—any sharp sound, e.g. twang of the bow, Il.1.49; scream of birds, esp. cranes, to which are compared confused cries of a throng, 3.3, Od.11.605, cf. Il.2.100, 10.523; grunting of swine, Od. 14.412; later, howling of wolves and lions, h.Hom.14.4, cf. 27.8; hissing of serpents, Pi.Dith.2.18 (pl.), A.Th.381 (pl.); baying of dogs, X.Cyn.4.5, etc.; also, of musical instruments, Telest.4, Mnesim.4.57 (anap.); of song, S.Tr.208 (lyr.); κ. ἀηδόνειος (leg. -όνιος) Nicom. Trag.1; κ. δύσφατος, of Cassandra's prophecies, A.Ag.1152 (lyr.); of the scream of the Harpies, A.R.2.269.
κλαγγ-ή , ἡ, metapl. dat.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.
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