ἀκτή: Difference between revisions

|Definition=(A), ἡ, <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[headland]], [[foreland]], [[promontory]], ἀκτὴ προὔχουσα <span class="bibl">Od.24.82</span>; ἀκταὶ προβλῆτες <span class="bibl">5.405</span>, <span class="bibl">10.89</span>; opp. [[λιμήν]], <span class="bibl">Il.12.284</span>; often with epithets, denoting high rugged coast, [[τρηχεῖα]], [[ὑψηλή]], <span class="bibl">Od.5.425</span>, <span class="bibl">Il.2.395</span>; τρηχέα <span class="bibl">Hdt.7.33</span>; στυφλοί <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Pers.</span>303</span>; ἀμφίκλυστος <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Tr.</span>752</span>; στόνῳ βρέμουσι δ' ἀντιπλῆγες ἀκταί <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Ant.</span>592</span>:—usu. of [[sea]]-[[coast]], <b class="b3">χλωρὰ ἀκτή</b> ib.<span class="bibl">1132</span>; ἀκταὶ ἔναλοι <span class="bibl">Tim.<span class="title">Pers.</span>109</span>; but also of [[rugged]] [[bank]]s or [[strand]] of [[river]]s, [[Ἑλώρου]], [[Νείλος|Νείλου]], <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">N.</span>9.40</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">I.</span>2.42</span>; Σιμόεντος <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Ag.</span>697</span>; [[Ἀχέροντος]] <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Ant.</span>813</span>.—Rare in early Prose, <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">An.</span> 6.2.1</span>, <span class="bibl">Lycurg.17</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> generally, [[tract]] of [[land]] running out into the [[sea]], <b class="b3">ἀκταὶ διφάσιαι</b> of the north and south coasts of Asia Minor, <span class="bibl">Hdt.4.38</span>; of Africa, as jatting out from Asia, <span class="bibl">4.41</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">177</span>; of Cape Sepias, <span class="bibl">7.183</span>, al.; of Mt.Athos, <span class="bibl">Th.4.109</span>; ofltaly, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Pol.</span>1329b11</span>; of the peninsula of the Piraeus, <span class="bibl">Hyp.<span class="title">Fr.</span>185</span>, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Ath.</span>42.3</span>, <span class="bibl">Lycurg. 17</span> (also of Attica in general, <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Hel.</span>1673</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Str.9.1.3</span>); of the coast of Argolis, <span class="bibl">Plb.5.91.8</span>, <span class="bibl">D.S.12.43</span>: pl., ἀκτὰς τῆσδε γῆς <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Fr.</span> 24</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> generally, [[edge]], <b class="b3">χώματος ἀκτή</b> of a [[sepulchral]] [[mound]], <span class="bibl">A. <span class="title">Ch.</span>722</span>; [[βώμιος]] [[ἀκτή]] of an [[altar]], <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">OT</span>182</span>(lyr.). (As there is no trace of ϝ, the word is more probably connected with [root ] ak '[[pointed]]' than with [[ϝάγνυμι]].) </span><br /><span class="bld">ἀκτή</span> (B), ἡ, poet. word for <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[corn]], Δημήτερος ἀκτή <span class="bibl">Il.13.322</span>, <span class="bibl">21.76</span>, cf.<span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Hipp.</span>138</span> (lyr.), <span class="bibl">Epin.1.9</span>; μυληφάτου ἀλφίτου ἀκτή <span class="bibl">Od.2.355</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">14.429</span>, <span class="bibl">Il.11.631</span>:—in Hes. of [[corn]] generally, <b class="b3">ὡσεὶ Δημήτερος ἀκτή</b>, of standing crop, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Sc.</span>290</span>, of unthreshed corn, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Op.</span>597</span>,<span class="bibl">805</span>; of [[seed]], οὐ σπόρον ὁλκοῖσιν Δηοῦς ἐνιβάλλομαι ἀ. <span class="bibl">A.R.3.413</span>. (The connection with [[ἄγνυμι]] is doubtful.)</span>