A.headland, foreland, promontory, “ἀ. προὔχουσα” Od.24.82; “ἀ. προβλῆτες” 5.405, 10.89; opp. λιμήν, Il.12.284; often with epithets, denoting high rugged coast, τρηχεῖα, ὑψηλή, Od.5.425, Il.2.395; “τρηχέα” Hdt.7.33; “στυφλοί” A.Pers.303; “ἀμφίκλυστος” S.Tr.752; “στόνῳ βρέμουσι δ᾽ ἀντιπλῆγες ἀκταί” Id.Ant.592:—usu. of sea-coast, χλωρὰ ἀ. ib.1132; “ἀκταὶ ἔναλοι” Tim.Pers.109; but also of rugged banks or strand of rivers, Ἑλώρου, Νείλου, Pi.N.9.40, I.2.42; “Σιμόεντος” A.Ag.697; “Ἀχέροντος” S.Ant.813.—Rare in early Prose, X.An. 6.2.1, Lycurg.17.
2. generally, tract of land running out into the sea, ἀ. διφάσιαι of the north and south coasts of Asia Minor, Hdt.4.38; of Africa, as jatting out from Asia, 4.41, cf. 177; of Cape Sepias, 7.183, al.; of Mt.Athos, Th.4.109; ofltaly, Arist.Pol.1329b11; of the peninsula of the Piraeus, Hyp.Fr.185, Arist.Ath.42.3, Lycurg. 17 (also of Attica in general, E.Hel.1673, cf. Str.9.1.3); of the coast of Argolis, Plb.5.91.8, D.S.12.43: pl., “ἀκτὰς τῆσδε γῆς” S.Fr. 24.