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ἄφθον-ος , ον,
A.without envy: hence,
I. Act., free from envy, Pi.O.6.7; “ἄνδρα τύραννον ἄ. ἔδει εἶναι” Hdt.3.80, cf. Pl.R.500a. Adv. “-νως” Id.Lg.731a.
2. ungrudging, bounteous, of earth, “ἄφθονε δαῖμον” h.Hom.30.16; ἀφθόνῳ μένει, ἀφθόνῳ χερί, A.Ag.305, E.Med.612; “ἀ. λειμῶνες” Pl.Sph.222a, cf. Ax.371c.
II. more freq. (esp. in Prose) not grudged, plentiful, “ἄ. πάντα παρέσται” h.Ap. 536; “καρπὸν πολλόν τε καὶ ἄ.” Hes.Op.118; “πλοῦτος” Sol.33.5; “χρυσὸς ἄ.” Hdt.6.132, cf. 7.83; “χώρη . . ἄ. λίην” Id.2.6; “ἄ. βίοτος” A.Fr.196; “πόλιν ἀφθονεστάτην χρήμασιν” Eup.307; “χώρα πολλὴ καὶ ἄ.” X.An.5.6.25; “ἄφθονα καὶ πολλὰ ἔχων εἰπεῖν” Aeschin.3.203; “λόγοι ἄ.” D.21.136; ἐν ἀφθόνοις βιοτεύειν to live in plenty, X.An.3.2.25; “ἐν ἀφθόνοις τραφείς” D.18.256; “τὸ χαίρειν ἄφθονον εἰπών” IG12(7).445 (Amorgos).
2. unenvied, provoking no envy, “ὄλβος” A.Ag.471 (lyr.).
III. irreg. Comp. “-έστερος” Pi.O.2.104, A.Fr.72, Pl.R.460b: Sup. “-έστατος” Eup.1.c.; regul. forms -ώτερος, -ώτατος, X.An.7.6.28, Cyr.5.4.40, etc.
IV. Adv., “πάντα δ᾽ ἀφθόνως πάρα” Sol.38; ἀ. ἔχειν τινός to have enough of it, Pl.Grg.494c; “ἀ. διδόναι” Arist.Pol.1314b4; “πολλά με διδάσκεις ἀ.” Philem.154; “ξένων καὶ ἐντοπίων ἀ. ζήσας” IG5(2).491 (Megalop., ii/iii A.D.).
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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