I.the bank of a stream (while litus is the coast, shore of the sea; v. Döderl. Syn. Part. 3, p. 208; freq. and class. in sing. and plur.), Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 20, 40 (Ann. v. 41 Vahl.): “ripas radentia flumina rodunt,” Lucr. 5, 256: “ex utrāque parte ripae fluminis,” Caes. B. G. 1, 38, 5: “Romulus urbem perennis amnis posuit in ripā,” Cic. Rep. 2, 5, 10; Hor. C. 1, 2, 19: “viridissima gramine ripa,” Verg. G. 3, 144: “turba ad ripas effusa ruebat,” id. A. 6, 305: “umbrosa,” Hor. C. 3, 1, 23: “declivis,” Ov. M. 5, 591; Liv. 1, 37.— “Comically: ripis superat mihi atque abundat pectus laetitiā meum,” Plaut. Stich. 2, 2, 6: “vos mihi amnes estis, vestrā ripā vos sequar,” id. Poen. 3, 3, 18.—
II. Transf., the shore of the sea: villa semper mare recte conspicit ... numquam ex ripā, sed haud paulum submota a litore (sc. respergitur), never (immediately) from the bank, but (rather) a good way back from the shore, Col. 1, 5, 5: sentiant ... Aequoris nigri fremitum, et trementes Verbere ripas, Hor. C. 3, 27, 22: “maris ripa,” App. M. 11, p. 264, 29; Plin. 9, 15, 20, § 50.
