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