ἀφρός

A. foam, of the sea, ῥόος Ὠκεανοῖο ἀφρῷ μορύρων Il. 18.403, etc.; of a river, 5.599.

2. of persons and animals, foam, slaver, froth, περί τ’ ἀ. ὀδόντας γίγνεται 20.168; ἀ. περὶ στόμα Hp. Aph. 2.43, cf. Ev.Luc. 9.39; μέλαν’ ἀπ’ ἀνθρώπων ἀφρόν frothy blood, A. Eu. 183, cf. Fr. 372; θρομβώδεις ἀφροί S. Tr. 702; βακχίου παλαιγενοῦς ἀφρῷ, of wine, Antiph. 237; κύλικα . . ἀφρῷ ζέουσαν Theophil. 2.

II. ἀφρὸς νίτρου, = ἀφρόνιτρον, Hp. Mul. 1.75; ἀ. alone, Arist. Col. 794a20.

2. ἀ. αἵματος, = σπέρμα, Diog.Apoll.A 24 D.

III. a kind of ἀφύη, Arist. HA 569a29, b28, Ath. 7.325b; Ionic, acc. to Archestr. Fr. 9.2, but cf. Hsch. s.v. ἀφύων τιμή. (ṃbhrós, cf. Skt. abhrám 'cloud', Lat. imber.)