Ἀφρογενής
Aphrogenēs

Greek noun

Last edited: 2025-02-24
Primary meaning Venus
Literal translation Foam-born
Variants
Ἀφρογενής Aphrogenēs
Edited by
Venus planet

Ἠέλιος φαυλοῖσι βεβλαμμένος, Ἀφρογενής τε (…) ἀνέρι πῆμα φέρουσιν

‘The Sun, when injured by bad ones (malefics), and the Foam-born (Venus) (…) bring pain to a husband’

— Dorotheus 5.16.1–40

Genre: astrological treatise
Date: 1st cent. CE?
Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Zellmann-Rohrer, M. (2025). Ἀφρογενής (Lemma #2896). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2896/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Zellmann-Rohrer, M. (2025). Ἀφρογενής (Lemma #2896). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2896/
MLA (9th)
Zellmann-Rohrer, M. (2025). Ἀφρογενής (Lemma #2896). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2896/
Harvard
Zellmann-Rohrer, M. (2025) Ἀφρογενής (Lemma #2896), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2896/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac2896,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Zellmann-Rohrer, Michael},
	year = {2025},
	title = {Ἀφρογενής ({Lemma} #2896)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2896/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2896/},
}