αἰγιαλός

aigialos

sea-shore, beach

Appears 4 times across Homer's epics.

Frequency by work

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Iliad 3
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Book 2 1
Chapter ?

2210
Book 4 1
Chapter ?

4422
Book 14 1
Chapter ?

1434
Odyssey 1
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Book 22 1
Chapter ?

22385

Dictionary (LSJ)

αἰγιαλός, ὁ, A. sea-shore, beach, Il. 4.422, Od. 22.385, Hdt. 7.50, al., Th. 1.7 (pl.), X. An. 6.4.4, Thphr. HP 7.13.8 (pl.), etc.; distinguished from ἀκτή, Arist. HA 547a10; also in E.(lyr.), IT 425, IA 210; αἰγιαλὸν ἔνδον τρέφει a whole beach of voting-pebbles, Ar. V. 110: prov., αἰγιαλῷ λαλεῖς, of deaf persons, Suid., Zen. 1.38. (Prob. connected with αἰγίς II, αἴξ IV.)

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