ἀφρόν (aphron)

ἀφρόν is an Ancient Greek form of ἀφρός, meaning “foam”. It is the accusative singular masculine noun.

Found 31 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 5.105.3: καὶ πρὸς μὲν τὸ θεῖον οὕτως ἐκ τοῦ εἰκότος οὐ φοβούμεθα ἐλασσώσεσθαι· τῆς δὲ ἐς Λακεδαιμονίους δόξης, ἣν διὰ τὸ αἰσχρὸν δὴ βοηθήσειν ὑμῖν πιστεύετε αὐτούς, μακαρίσαντες ὑμῶν τὸ ἀπειρόκακον οὐ ζηλοῦμεν τὸ ἄφρον.

Euripides, Medea 1174: χωροῦντα λευκὸν ἀφρόν, ὀμμάτων τ’ ἄπο

Euripides, Hippolytus 1210: κἄπειτ’ ἀνοιδῆσάν τε καὶ πέριξ ἀφρὸν

All forms of ἀφρός (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.