Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

Ἀφροδίσιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: Ἀφροδίσιος

Structure: Ἀφροδισι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: From A)frodi/th

Sense

  1. belonging to Aphrodite
  2. sexual pleasures
  3. a festival of Aphrodite
  4. the temple of Aphrodite

Declension

First/Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • εἰσ τὰσ Ἀθήνασ παρεπιδημήσασ ξένοσ σατράπησ πάνυ γέρων, ὡσ ἐνενήκοντ’ ὢν ἐτῶν, Κρονίοισ ἀπιοῦσαν εἶδε τὴν Γναθαίνιον μετὰ τῆσ Γναθαίνησ ἐξ Ἀφροδισίου τινόσ, τὸ τ’ εἶδοσ αὐτῆσ τοὺσ ῥυθμούσ τε καταμαθὼν ἐπυνθάνετο μίσθωμα πράσσεται πόσον τῆσ νυκτόσ, ἡ Γνάθαινα δ’ εἰσ τὴν πορφύραν καὶ τὰ δόρατ’ ἀποβλέψασα δραχμὰσ χιλίασ ἔταξεν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 442)
  • ὅτε γὰρ ἀπῆγε τὸ στράτευμα ἐκ τῶν Θηβῶν, ἐν τοῖσ Μεγάροισ ἀναβαίνοντοσ αὐτοῦ ἐκ τοῦ Ἀφροδισίου εἰσ τὸ ἀρχεῖον ῥήγνυται ὁποία δὴ φλέψ, καὶ ἐρρύη τὸ ἐκ τοῦ σώματοσ αἷμα εἰσ τὸ ὑγιὲσ σκέλοσ. (Xenophon, Hellenica, , chapter 4 69:2)
  • ἔνιοι δ’ ἀπὸ τοῦ Ἀφροδισίου μέχρι τοῦ Ουἄρου σταδίουσ ἀνέγραψαν δισχιλίουσ ἑξακοσίουσ, οἱ δὲ καὶ διακοσίουσ προστιθέασιν· (Strabo, Geography, book 4, chapter 1 6:10)
  • ἴσον δέ πωσ διέχει τὰ ἐμπόρια ταῦτα ἀλλήλων τε καὶ τῶν εἰρημένων ἄκρων, ἡ μὲν Νάρβων τοῦ Ἀφροδισίου τὸ δ’ Ἀρελᾶτε τῆσ Μασσαλίασ. (Strabo, Geography, book 4, chapter 1 12:8)
  • οὗτοι μὲν ἐκ τῆσ Πυρήνησ ῥέουσιν οἱ ποταμοὶ μεταξὺ Νάρβωνοσ καὶ τοῦ Ἀφροδισίου. (Strabo, Geography, book 4, chapter 1 12:14)

Synonyms

  1. belonging to Aphrodite

  2. sexual pleasures

  3. a festival of Aphrodite

  4. the temple of Aphrodite

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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