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ἀφέλῃ (aphele)

ἀφέλῃ is an Ancient Greek form of ἀφελής, meaning “simple, plain, unaffected”. It is the accusative singular feminine adjective.

Found 41 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Lycurgus 13.4: οὐδʼ ἔστιν οὐδεὶς οὕτως ἀπειρόκαλος καὶ ἀνόητος ὥστε εἰς οἰκίαν ἀφελῆ καὶ δημοτικὴν εἰσφέρειν κλίνας ἀργυρόποδας καὶ στρωμνὰς ἁλουργεῖς καὶ χρυσᾶς κύλικας καὶ τὴν τούτοις ἑπομένην …

Plutarch, De Alexandri magni fortuna aut virtute 2.4: … ταῦθʼ ὡς ἔοικεν Ἡφαιστίωνι διενεχθέντι πρὸς Κρατερὸν ἐπιτιμῶν τίς δʼ εἶπεν ἡ σὴ δύναμις ἢ πρᾶξις, ἄν σού τις ἀφέλῃ τὸν Ἀλέξανδρον; ἐγὼ δὲ τοῦτʼ εἰπεῖν πρὸς τὴν τότε Τύχην οὐκ ὀκνήσω τί σου τὸ μέγεθος, τίς δʼ ἡ δόξα, ποῦ δʼ ἡ …

All forms of ἀφελής (declension table)

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.