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ἀφρός , ὁ,
A.foam, of the sea, “ῥόος Ὠκεανοῖο ἀφρῷ μορύρων” Il.18.403, etc.; of a river, 5.599.
2. of persons and animals, foam, slaver, froth, “περί τ᾽ ἀ. ὀδόντας γίγνεται” 20.168; “ἀ. περὶ στόμα” Hp.Aph.2.43, cf. Ev.Luc.9.39; “μέλαν᾽ ἀπ᾽ ἀνθρώπων ἀφρόν” frothy blood, A.Eu.183, cf. Fr.372; “θρομβώδεις ἀφροί” S.Tr.702; βακχίου παλαιγενοῦς ἀφρῷ, of wine, Antiph.237; “κύλικα . . ἀφρῷ ζέουσαν” Theophil.2.
II. ἀφρὸς νίτρου, = ἀφρόνιτρον, Hp.Mul.1.75; ἀ. alone, Arist.Col.794a20.
2. ἀ. αἵματος, = σπέρμα, Diog.Apoll.A 24 D.
III. a kind of ἀφύη, Arist.HA569a29, b28, Ath.7.325b; Ionic, acc. to Archestr. Fr.9.2, but cf. Hsch. s.v. ἀφύων τιμή. (ṃbhrós, cf. Skt. abhrám 'cloud', Lat. imber.）
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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