ῥαχία: Difference between revisions

|Definition=Ion. [[ῥηχίη]], ἡ,<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[flood tide]], opp. [[ἄμπωτις]], Hdt.2.11, 7.198; joined with [[πλημυρίς]] ([[si vera lectio|s.v.l.]]), Id.8.129, cf. Hp. ap. Gal.19.135.<br><span class="bld">2</span> the [[roar of the breakers]], metaph. of a [[crowd]] of [[people]], ὄχλου τοιούτου ῥαχίαν ἠθροισμένην Posidipp.27.11; ῥαχίαν ποιεῖν ἐν δήμῳ Plu.2.789d, cf. 791a: [[proverb|prov.]], ῥαχίας [[λαλίστερος]] = as [[garrulous]] as a [[reef]] Diogenian.7.99.<br><span class="bld">II</span> [[rocky shore]] or [[rocky beach]] (πᾶς [[πετρώδης]] [[αἰγιαλός]] [[Hesychius Lexicographus|Hsch.]]), ἁλίστονοι ῥ. A.Pr.713; παρ' αὐτὴν τὴν ῥαχία Th.4.10, cf. Plb.3.39.4, Str.16.4.23.<br><span class="bld">2</span> = [[ῥάχις]] II.1, S.Fr.1088;= [[ῥάχις]] ''1'', Nonn.D.11.182, 39.334 (v. ad fin.). [ῥᾰ- metri gr. only in late Poets, as AP7.393 (Diocl.); in sense 11.2, Nonn. Il.cc.] (Cogn. with [[ῥάσσω]], [[ῥήσσω]], and [[ἀράσσω]]; τὸν τόπον ᾧ προσαράττει τὸ [[κῦμα]], Ael.Dion.Fr.427: not cogn. with [[ῥήγνυμι]], which has pan-Hellenic η.)