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Ἀφροδίσ-ιος , α, ον, also ος, ον D.H.2.24, Luc.Am.12, Ael.NA1.2:—
A.belonging to the goddess of love, “ἔργον” Semon.7.48; “ἄγρα” S.Fr.166; “ὅρκος” Pl.Smp.183b; “ἀθύρματα” Crates Com.2D.; “λόγος” Pl.Com.2D.; “κῆπος” Archipp.2D.; “ὑμέναιον” Pherecr.12D.
II. Ἀφροδίσια, τά, sexual pleasures, Hp.Mochl.36, freq. in Pl., as Phd.81b, al.; “τέρπν᾽ ἄνθε᾽ Ἀ.” Pi.N.7.53; “τὰ τῶν ὡραίων Ἀ.” X.Mem.2.6.22; “ἔργα Ἀ.” Hp.Jusj.:—also as concrete, = amasius, X.Mem.1.3.8.
2. festival of Aphrodite, “Ἀ. ἄγειν” Id.HG5.4.4, Alex. 253.1.
3. pudenda, Luc.Nigr.16.
III. Ἀφροδίσιον, τό, temple of Aphrodite, X.HG5.4.58, GDI5075.70（Crete); her statue, Plu.Thes. 21, PPetr.3p.113.
2. in pl., brothels, PTeb.6.29(ii B. C.).
IV. Ἀφροδίσιος, ὁ (sc. μήν), name of a month in Cyprus, Porph.Abst.2.54, etc.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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