ἀφʼ (aph)

ἀφʼ is an Ancient Greek form of ἀπό, meaning “from, away from (+gen.)”. It is the preposition.

Found 1,847 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.231: οἱ πλεῖστοι καὶ ἄριστοι ἀφʼ αἵματος εὐχετόωντο

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.3.2: … νος τοῦ Δευκαλίωνος καὶ πάνυ οὐδὲ εἶναι ἡ ἐπίκλησις αὕτη, κατὰ ἔθνη δὲ ἄλλα τε καὶ τὸ Πελασγικὸν ἐπὶ πλεῖστον ἀφ’ ἑαυτῶν τὴν ἐπωνυμίαν παρέχεσθαι, Ἕλληνος δὲ καὶ τῶν παίδων αὐτοῦ ἐν τῇ Φθιώτιδι ἰσχυσάντων, καὶ ἐπαγομένων αὐ …

Sophocles, Ichneutae 294: τόνδʼ αφ[ ]ον[

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.