ἀφορμάς (aphormas)

ἀφορμάς is an Ancient Greek form of ἀφορμή, meaning “starting point, resources; pretext”. It is the accusative plural feminine noun.

Found 198 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 4.7.47: … ά· σκόπει δέ με ἐξ ἐμαυτοῦ. Καὶ ἦν ὡς ἀληθῶς ὁ Βίων τὰ μὲν ἄλλα πολύτροπος καὶ σοφιστὴς ποικίλος καὶ πλείστας ἀφορμὰς δεδωκὼς τοῖς βουλομένοις καθιππάζεσθαι φιλοσοφίας· ἔν τισι δὲ καὶ πομπικὸς καὶ ἀπολαῦσαι τύφου δυνάμενος. πλε …

Euripides, Bacchae 267: καλὰς ἀφορμάς, οὐ μέγʼ ἔργον εὖ λέγειν·

Sophocles, Ajax 290: κληθεὶς ἀφορμᾷς πεῖραν οὔτε τοῦ κλύων

All forms of ἀφορμή (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.