ὄχθη
ochthe
any height
Appears 16 times across Homer's epics.
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Dictionary (LSJ)
ὄχθη, ἡ, older form of ὄχθος, A. any height or rising ground, natural or artificial, bank, dyke by the side of a river, ὑψηλὴν βάλεν ὄχθην Il. 21.171, cf. 172: in sg., also, Publ. 16, An. 1.14.4, CPHerm. 95.10 (iii A. D.): mostly in pl., raised banks of a river, in full, ποταμοῖο παρʼ ὄχθας Il. 4.487, 18.533, cf. 3.187; παρʼ ὄχθῃσιν ποταμοῖο Od. 6.97; Καφισοῦ παρʼ ὄχθαις P. 4.46, cf. 2.21, Pr. 810, Th. 392, etc.; ὄχθαι καπέτοιο the raised banks of the trench, dykes, Il. 15.356; also, heights beside the sea, ἁλὸς παρʼ ὄχθας Od. 9.132; ταὶ ὑπὲρ Κύμας ἁλιερκέες ὄ. P. 1.18, cf. 12.2; also of rising banks at a little distance from a river, An. 4.3.3 and 5: ὄχθη is distd. as the bank of a river, from ὄχθος a hill, in Ph. 726, 729 (both lyr.); and this distn. generally holds, but in P. 1.64 we read ὄχθαις ὑπὸ Ταϋγέτου; and in Ant. 1132 (lyr.), Νυσαίων ὀρέων ὄχθαι; reversely, we have in Sapph.p.44 Lobel, ὄχθοις Ἀχέροντος; in Ag. 1161, Ἀχερουσίους ὄχθους; and in Supp. 655, Ἰσμήνιον πρὸς ὄχθον; in late Prose, τὴν ὄχθαν (sic) τῆς θαλάσσης sea-shore, 2.203.—Cf. ὄχθος.
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