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ἁφή , ἡ, (ἅπτω)
A.lighting, kindling, περὶ λύχνων ἁφάς about lamp-lighting time, Hdt.7.215, cf.PTeb.88.12 (ii B. C.), D.H.11.33, D.S.19.31, Ath.12.526c.
II. (ἅπτομαι) touch, ἐπώνυμον δὲ τῶν Διὸς γέννημ᾽ ἁφῶν (Wieseler for γεννημάτων）“ τέξεις . . Ἔπαφον” A.Pr.850.
2. sense of touch, Pl.R.523e, cf. Arist.EN1118b1, de An.424a12; “ἀκριβεστάτην . . τῶν αἰσθήσεων τὴν ἁφήν” Id.HA494b16; “ἡ ἁφὴ ἐν ταῖς αἰσθήσεσι παρέσπαρται” Luc.Salt.70.
3. touch of the harp-strings, metaph., “ἐμμελοῦς ἁφῆς καὶ κρούσεως” Plu.Per.15; “οὐχὶ συμφώνους ἁφάς” Damox. 2.42.
4. grip, in wrestling, etc., “ἁφὴν ἐνδιδόναι αὑτοῦ” Plu.2.86f: metaph., “τοῖς ἀφληταῖς τῆς λέξεως ἰσχυρὰς τὰς ἁ. προσεῖναι δεῖ καὶ ἀφύκτους τὰς λαβάς” D.H.Dem.18; “ἁφὰς ἔχει καὶ τόνους ἰσχυρούς” Id.Lys. 13; ἁ. εἶχεν ἡ συνδιαίτησις ἄφυκτον, of Cleopatra, Plu.Ant.27.
5. sand sprinkled over wrestlers, to enable them to get a grip of one another, Arr.Epict.3.15.4; “ἁφῇ πηλώσασθαι” IG4.955 (Epid., ii A. D.).
6. Math., contact of surfaces, etc., Arist.Ph.227a17, Metaph.1014b22, al.; point of contact, Euc.Phaen.p.16M., al.; of intersection, Papp. 988.9, cf. Alex.Aphr. in Top.24.16.
7. in pl., stripes, strokes, LXX 2 Ki.7.14, al.
8. infection, esp. of leprosy, ib.Le.13.6, al.: generally, plague, Aq.Ge.12.17, Aq., Sm.Ex.11.1.
III. junction, point of contact in the body, Arist.GC326b12, 327a12; ligament, Ep. Eph.4.16, Ep.Col.2.19.
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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