ῥηγμίν

English (LSJ)

or ῥηγ-μίς (neither form is found, unless [ῥηγμὶ]ν is to be restd. in IGRom.4.272.1(Elaea, cf.

   A Wiener Sitzb.214(4).26)), gen.ῖνος, ἡ, sea breaking on the beach, surf (v. ῥήγνυμι B.1), ἄκρον ἐπὶ ῥηγμῖνος ἁλὸς . . θέεσκον Il.20.229; κώπῃσιν ἁλὸς ῥηγμῖνα βαθεῖαν τύπτετε, of the broken sea between Scylla and Charybdis, Od.12.214; with the Prep. ἐπί, it may be rendered at the sea's edge, ἐκ . . βαῖνον ἐπὶ ῥηγμῖνι θαλάσσης Il.1.437, cf. Od.9.150; κοιμήθημεν ἐπὶ ῥηγμῖνι θαλάσσης ib.169, cf. Pi.N.5.13; ἄκραις ἐπὶ ῥηγμῖσιν ἀξένου πόρου E.IT253; also λαοὶ δὲ παρὰ ῥ. θαλάσσης δίσκοισιν τέρποντο Il.2.773, cf. Od.4.449; ὅταν κυμαίνουσα ἐκβάλλῃ [ἡ θάλαττα], . . παχεῖαι καὶ σκολιαὶ γίνονται αἱ ῥ.· ὅταν δὲ γαλήνη ᾖ, . . λεπταί εἰσι καὶ εὐθεῖαι Arist.Mete.367b14.    2 metaph., ῥ. βίοιο verge of life, i.e. death, Emp.20.5; ὥσπερ ῥηγμῖνα οὖσαν ἀέρος τὴν νεφέλην Arist.Mete.367b19.    II τὰ ἀπορπύματα (fort. ἀπορρήγματα) τῆς πέτρας, Hsch.