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Ἀφροδίτη [ι_], ἡ, （ἀφρός)
A.Aphrodite, h.Hom.5, Hes.Th.195; “διὰ τὴν τοῦ ἀφροῦ γένεσιν Ἀφροδίτη ἐκλήθη” Pl.Cra.4c6c.
II. as Appellat., sexual love, pleasure, Od.22.444; “ὑπ᾽ Ἀπόλλωνι ψαύειν Ἀφροδίτας” Pi.O.6.35; “ἔργα Ἀφροδίτης” h.Ven.1,9, etc.; μὰ τὴν Ἀ., νὴ τὴν Ἀ., a woman's form of oath, Ar.Lys.208, Ec.189, etc.
2. generally, vehement longing or desire, E.IA1264; “Ἀ. τιν᾽ ἡδεῖαν κακῶν” enjoyment, Id.Ph.399.
3. beauty, grace, charm, “ἔρρει πᾶσ᾽ Ἀ.” A.Ag. 419 (lyr.); “τοιαύτην Ἀ. ἐπὶ τῇ γλώττῃ . . ἔχει” Luc.Scyth.11; “πολλὴν Ἀ. τῷ λόγῳ περιτιθέναι” D.H.Comp.3.
III. ὁ τᾶς Ἀφροδίτας [ἀστήρ] the planet Venus, Ti.Locr.97a, cf. Pl.Epin.987b, Arist.Metaph.1073b31, etc.
IV. Pythag. name for five, Theol.Ar.31.
V. seedtime, Orph.Fr.33.
VI. name of various plasters, Aët.12.48, 15.15.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (12):
    • Aeschylus, Agamemnon, 419
    • Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae, 189
    • Euripides, Iphigeneia in Aulis, 1264
    • Euripides, Phoenician Women, 399
    • Hesiod, Theogony, 195
    • Homer, Odyssey, 22.444
    • Homeric Hymns, Hymn 5 to Aphrodite, 9
    • Homeric Hymns, Hymn 5 to Aphrodite, 1
    • Plato, Epinomis, 987b
    • Aristophanes, Lysistrata, 208
    • Lucian, Scytha, 11
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, 3
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