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1 κωφός
A blunt, dull, obtuse, opp.ὀξύς, κ. βέλος Il.11.390
, cf. E.Fr.495.27;κ. καλάμη AP12.25
(Stat.Flacc.).II metaph.,1 of sound, mute, noiseless,κύματι κωφῷ Il.14.16
; κωφὴν γὰρ δὴ γαῖαν ἀεικίζει is maltreating dumb, senseless earth, 24.54; τὰ μὲν ἄλλα ἔσκε κωφά the other parts sounded dull, opp. to the ringing of the hollow parts when struck, Hdt.4.200: neut. pl. as Adv.,κωφὰ δὲ πόντος κεῖτο Orph.A. 1103
; ὁ κ. λιμήν, prob. the bay of Munychia, as opp. to the noisy Piraeus, X.HG2.4.31; κωφότερος ὁ ψόφος ἔσται, i.e. muffled, Aen.Tact.19; τῶν μεταλλικῶν κωφότατος [ὁ σίδηρος] rings least, Plu.2.721f;κωφοὶ ἄνεμοι D.S.3.51
.2 after Hom., of men or animals, dumb, Parm.6.7, etc.; καὶ κωφοῦ συνίημι καὶ οὐ φωνεῦντος ἀκούω Orac. ap. Hdt.1.47; οὐ.. παρὰ κωφὸν ὁ τυφλὸς ἔοικε λαλῆσαι, i.e. is not so dumb but that he will answer the blind fool who assails him, Cratin.6;κωφότερος κίχλης Eub.29
; κ. χάρις a mute gift (sc. an epitaph), Epigr.Gr. 298 ([place name] Teos); soκωφοῖς δάκρυσι IPE2.299
([place name] Panticapaeum); κ. τάφοι prob. in IG12(8).441.26; κ. προσωπεῖον mute figure on the stage, Ph.2.520, cf. Plu.2.791e;κ. πρόσωπον Cic. Att.13.19.3
; κ. καὶ ἄλογος, of a house, with no echoes, Luc.Dom. 1.b deaf, h.Merc.92, Heraclit.34.A.Th. 202, Ch. 881;λήθην κωφήν, ἄναυδον S.Fr. 670
; ὅσοι γίνονται κ. ἐκ γενετῆς, πάντες καὶ ἐνεοὶ γίνονται Arist.HA 536b3 (hence of a deaf and dumb person, Hdt.1.34, BGU 1196.49 (i B. C.), cf. Hsch.); c.gen.,κωφὴ ἀκοῆς αἴσθησις Antiph.196.5
, cj. in Pl.Lg. 932a; κ. Ἑλλάδος φωνᾶς deaf of one's Greek ear, i.e. ignorant of Greek, Dialex.6.12;σπαράγματα κωφὰ τοῦ βεβαιοῦντος Plu.2.1108d
.c metaph.,νοῦς ὁρῇ καὶ νοῦς ἀκούει· τἆλλα κωφὰ καὶ τυφλά Epich.249
;κ. πέτρος Moschio
Trag.7;μαψαῦραι Call.Fr.67
;ἐρημία D.S.3.40
: neut. pl. as Adv., feebly,AP
12.125 (Mel.).3 ὄμμα κ. vacant, lack-lustre eye, Arist.Phgn. 807b23.4 of the senses in general, dull, Thphr.Sens.19 ([comp] Comp.).5 of the mind, dull, obtuse,ἐγὼ ὁ πάντα κ. S.Aj. 911
, cf. Pi.P.9.87;τὸ τῆς ψυχῆς ποιεῖν κ. Pl.Ti. 88b
: κωφοί, οἱ, 'the Dullards', title of satyr-play by Sophocles.b of things, senseless, unmeaning, obscure,κ. καὶ παλαί' ἔπη S.OT 290
;κ. διήγησις Plb.3.36.4
, cf. 5.21.4;ὑπόνοια Phld.Mus.p.71
K.;σκῶμμα Plu.2.712a
; but κ. εὐπραγίαι is prob.f.l.for κοῦφαι, D.C.38.27. Adv.- φῶς obscurely, Vett.Val.251.25: [comp] Comp. - ότερον, ἐνοχλεῖν less acutely, Phld.Vit.p.21 J.
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