αἰγιᾰλός, ὁ,
sea-shore, beach, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.422, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 22.385, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.50, +others, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.7 (_plural_), 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 6.4.4, 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 7.13.8 (_plural_), etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; distinguished from ἀκτή, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 547a10; also in 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus (Lyric poetry), “IT” 425, “IA” 210] Refs 5th c.BC+]; αἰγιαλὸν ἔνδον τρέφει a whole beach of voting-pelbles, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 110: proverbial, αἰγιαλῷ λαλεῖς] Refs 5th c.BC+], of deaf persons, [[ 10th c.AD: Suidas Legal icographus, 2nd c.AD: Zenobius Paroemiographus 1.38. (Prob. connected with αἰγίς II, αἴξ IV.)] Refs 2nd c.AD+]