ἀφρός

aphros

foam

Appears 11 times across Aristotle's works.

Frequency by work

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Generation of Animals 5
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Book II 4
Chapter 2 735a29–736a23

735b10
735b21
736a14
736a14
Book V 1
Chapter 6 785b16–786b6

786a7
History of Animals 5
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Book VI 5
Chapter 15 569a10–570a2

569a29
569b13
569b16
569b19
569b28
Parts of Animals 1
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Book III 1
Chapter 6 668b33–669b12

669a32

Dictionary (LSJ)

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 τʼ ἀ. ὀδόντας γίγνεται 20.168; ἀ. περὶ στόμα Hp. Aph. 2.43, cf. Ev.Luc. 9.39; μέλανʼ ἀπʼ 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. HA 569a29, 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.)

Key passages & sense analysis (Bonitz)

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