ἀφροδίσια (aphrodisia)

ἀφροδίσια is an Ancient Greek form of Ἀφροδίσιος, meaning “Aphrodisios — of Aphrodite”. It is the accusative plural neuter adjective.

Found 56 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 8.1.9: … έγων μὴ παραβαίνειν μήτε τῶν ποτῶν μήτε τῶν σιτίων μηδένα τὴν συμμετρίαν. καὶ περὶ ἀφροδισίων δέ φησιν οὕτως· Ἀφροδίσια χειμῶνος ποιέεσθαι, μὴ θέρεος· φθινοπώρου δὲ καὶ ἦρος κουφότερα, βαρέα δὲ πᾶσαν ὥρην καὶ ἐς ὑγιείην οὐκ ἀγαθά …

Plutarch, De tuenda sanitate praecepta 12: … λόντες ἐπίκωμοι μεθύοντες οὐ φιλοφροσύνην παρέσχον οὐδʼ ἡδονὴν ἀλλὰ κλαυθμοὺς καὶ ὀδυρμοὺς ἐποίησαν, οὕτω καὶ ἀφροδίσια καὶ ὄψα καὶ βαλανεῖα καὶ οἶνος ἐν σώματι κακῶς καὶ παρὰ φύσιν ἔχοντι μιγνύμενα τοῖς μὴ καθεστῶσι καὶ διεφθορό …

All forms of Ἀφροδίσιος (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.