θίς [ῑ], θῑνός: ὁ
[[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.693, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 12.45, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 696, 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus (see. below)] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἡ [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 591, “Ph.” 1124, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 548b6, 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Fragmenta” 126, 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 3.44 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]:— heap, πολὺς ὀστεόφιν θίς [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 12.45; θῖνες νεκρῶν 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 818: _metaphorically_, θὶς πημάτων 3rd c.BC: Lycophron Tragicus 812 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; especially of sand-banks, θῖνες ψάμμου [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.26 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἄμμου, γῆς, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Fabius Maximus” 6, “Art.” 18; τοὺς ἐν ἄμμῳ θῖνας 1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “de Pietate - Herkulanische Studien” 20 ] Refs 1st c.BC+]; ἐν ταῖς θ. [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 548b6, compare 537a25; θῖνας καὶ ψάμμους 3rd c.AD: Porphyrius Tyrius Philosophus “de Abstinentia - Porphyrii Opuscula” 4.21 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; of the sandy deserts of Libya, [[ 3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 4.1384 ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; Νασαμώνων αὔλια καὶ δολιχὰς θ. [[ 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Fragmenta” 126. ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]
__2 usually in [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+], beach, shore, frequently in oblique cases, παρὰ θῖνα.. θαλάσσης [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.34, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 6.236, etc.; παρὰ θῖν᾽ ἁλὸς ἀτρυγέτοιο 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.316, compare 350, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; alone, ἐπὶ θινί [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 7.290; παρὰ θῖνα 9.46; later θῖν᾽ ἁλός 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 1521 (parody); πόντου 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 1124 (Lyric poetry); θαλάσσας 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andromache” 109 (eleg.); θαλαττία 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 3.44. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]