ἀκτή: Difference between revisions

|mdlsjtxt=<br />A. a [[headland]], [[foreland]], [[promontory]], [[shore]], Od., etc.: of the banks of rivers, ἀκταὶ Σιμόεντος Aesch.; Ἀχέροντος Soph.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> [[generally]], [[coast]]-[[land]], ἀκταὶ διφάσιαι of the N. and S. coasts of [[Asia]] [[Minor]], Hdt.; of [[Attica]] (cf. [[ἀκταῖος]]), Soph.<br /><b class="num">II.</b> [[generally]], any [[edge]] or [[strand]], like the sea-[[coast]], Lat. ora, χώματος [[ἀκτή]] of a [[sepulchral]] [[mound]], Aesch.; [[βώμιος]] ἀ. of an [[altar]], Soph. (Perh. from [[ἄγνυμι]], cf. [[ῥηγμίν]].)<br />B. [[corn]] or [[meal]], Δημήτερος [[ἀκτή]] Il.; [[ἀλφίτου ἀκτή]] Od. [deriv. uncertain].]