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πολυ?́φων-ος , ον,
A.having many tones,ὄρνιθεςArist.PA660a34; “κίτταPlu.2.973c, etc.: neut. pl. as Adv., “πολύφωνα κρῶξαιArat.1002.
2. having many voices,Βοιωτία ἕνεκα χρηστηρίων π. οὖσαPlu.2.411e; loquacious, talkative, π. οἶνος ib.715a, cf. Luc.Hist.Conscr.4.
3. manifold in expression, of Homer, D.H.Comp.16 (Sup.), Str.3.2.12; τὸ π., of Plato, Stob.2.7.3f; of Hyperides, -ότερος [τοῦ Δημοσθένους] Longin. 34.1.
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    • Strabo, Geography, 3.2.12
    • Lucian, Quomodo historia conscribenda sit, 4
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, 16
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