A.any height or rising ground, natural or artificial, bank, dyke by the side of a river, “ὑψηλὴν βάλεν ὄχθην” Il. 21.171, cf. 172: in sg., also, Plu.Publ.16, Arr.An.1.14.4, CPHerm. 95.10 (iii A. D.): mostly in pl., raised banks of a river, in full, “ποταμοῖο παρ᾽ ὄχθας” Il.4.487, 18.533, cf. 3.187; “παρ᾽ ὄχθῃσιν ποταμοῖο” Od. 6.97; “Καφισοῦ παρ᾽ ὄχθαις” Pi.P.4.46, cf. Xenoph.2.21, A.Pr.810, Th. 392, etc.; ὄχθαι καπέτοιο the raised banks of the trench, dykes, Il.15.356; also, heights beside the sea, “ἁλὸς παρ᾽ ὄχθας” Od.9.132; ταὶ ὑπὲρ Κύμας ἁλιερκέες ὄ. Pi.P.1.18, cf. 12.2; also of rising banks at a little distance from a river, X.An.4.3.3 and 5: ὄχθη is distd. as the bank of a river, from ὄχθος a hill, in S.Ph.726, 729 (both lyr.); and this distn. generally holds, but in Pi.P.1.64 we read ὄχθαις ὑπὸ Ταϋγέτου; and in S.Ant.1132 (lyr.), Νυσαίων ὀρέων ὄχθαι; reversely, we have in Sapph.p.44 Lobel, ὄχθοις Ἀχέροντος; in A.Ag.1161, Ἀχερουσίους ὄχθους; and in E.Supp.655, Ἰσμήνιον πρὸς ὄχθον; in late Prose, τὴν
ὄχθη , ἡ, older form of ὄχθος,
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.
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