LOGOI

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γεγωνός

gegonos

loud-sounding, sonorous

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What it meant — LSJ

loud-sounding, sonorous, loud of voice

loud-sounding, sonorous, πέμπει γεγωνὰ . . ἔπη A. Th. 443; ὄντα δʼ ἄφωνα βοὴν ἵστησι γεγωνόν Antiph. 196.2; loud of voice, ἀνήρ AP 7.428.15 (Mel.): in later Prose, φωνή D.H. 8.56, Ph. 1.348, Corn. ND 16; λόγος Ph. 1.95, al.; οὐ λόγῳ γ. ἀλλὰ τῇ ψυχῇ ἐκτείνασιν ἑαυτοὺς εἰς εὐχήν Plot. 5.1.6: Comp. γεγωνότερος, κύκνων AP 9.92 (Antip. Thess.), cf. D.H. 5.24, Hld. 10.32; γ. φθέγγεσθαι Ath. 14.622e, etc.

2 resounding

γεγωνός as neut., γ. μέλος Ael. VH 2.44; γεγωνὸς ἀναβοᾶν Luc. Gall. 1; φθέγγεσθαι Philostr. VA 5.9, cf. Her. 2.2; τὸ γ. τῆς ὀγκήσεως Corn. ND 21: also masc. and fem. as Adj., γεγωνότος λόγου Ph. 1.133; πλήξεις γεγωνυίας resounding blows, ib. 123.

3

Adv. Comp. γεγωνότερον ἐκβοήσας J. AJ 4.3.2, cf. Porph. Chr. 23.

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