ἀφορμαῖς (aphormais)

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

Found 26 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Pyrrhus 30.2: ὁ δὲ ἐλπίδας ἐξ ἐλπίδων ἀεὶ κυλίνδων, καὶ ταῖς μὲν εὐτυχίαις ἐπʼ ἄλλας χρώμενος ἀφορμαῖς, ἃ δὲ ἔπταιεν ἑτέροις βουλόμενος ἀναπληροῦν πράγμασιν, οὔτε ἧτταν οὔτε νίκην ὅρον ἐποιεῖτο τοῦ ταράττεσθαι κα …

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.