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ψόφ-ος , ὁ,
A.noise (prop. of one thing striking against another, Arist.de An.420a21; or of insects, which produce a sound, but not by the larynx, Id.HA535a28; opp. φωνή, Id.de An.420b29, HA535b31, al.; ψόφος μόνον [τὸ σῖγμα] Pl.Tht.203b, cf. Lg.669d, Aristox. ap. D.H.Comp.14); first in h.Merc.285, “ἄτερ ψόφου; γλώσσης ψ.” E. HF229; “φιλημάτων” S.Fr.537; “ψόφοι ἀνέμων” Pl.R.397a; of rolling stones, X.An.4.2.4; of footsteps, “ψόφῳ τῷ ἐκ τοῦ προσιέναι αὐτοὺς ἀντιπαταγοῦντος τοῦ ἀνέμου” Th.3.22, cf. Hdt.7.218; of knocking at a door, Ar.Ra.604 (lyr.), Pl.Smp.212c; cf. “ψοφέω” 11; crash of a falling building, Th.4.115; also of musical instruments, λωτοῦ, κιθάρας, E.Ba.687, Cyc.443; of a trumpet, Paus.2.21.3.
2. mere sound, noise, τοῦ σοῦ ψ. οὐκ ἂν στραφείην your noise will never turn me, S.Aj.1116; “κενὸς ψ.” E.Rh.565; “εὐδοξία ψόφος ἐστὶ μαινομένων ἀνθρώπων” Diog. ap.Arr.Epict.1.24.6; ψόφοι mere sounds, of high-sounding words or names, “ὁ μὴ φρονῶν . . ψόφοις ἁλίσκεται” Men.737, cf. Alciphr.2.3, Luc. DMeretr.15.3, Arr.Epict.2.6.19; ψόφου πλέως, of Aeschylus, Ar.Nu. 1367; ὁ ψ. τῶν ῥημάτων, of his language, Id.Ra.492.
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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