ὄχθη, ἡ,
older form of ὄχθος, any height or rising ground, natural or artificial, bank, dyke by the side of a river, ὑψηλὴν βάλεν ὄχθην [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.171, compare 172: in _sing._, also, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Publicola” 16, 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Anabasis” 1.14.4, “CPHerm.” 95.10 (3rd c.AD)] Refs 8th c.BC+]: mostly in plural, raised banks of a river, in full, ποταμοῖο παρ᾽ ὄχθας [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.487, 18.533, compare 3.187; παρ᾽ ὄχθῃσιν ποταμοῖο 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 6.97; Καφισοῦ παρ᾽ ὄχθαις 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.46, compare 6th c.BC: Xenophanes Poeta Philosophus 2.21, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 810, “Th.” 392, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ὄχθαι καπέτοιο the raised banks of the trench, dykes, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.356 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; also, heights beside the sea, ἁλὸς παρ᾽ ὄχθας [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.132 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ταὶ ὑπὲρ Κύμας ἁλιερκέες ὄ. [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 1.18, compare 12.2 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; also of rising banks at a little distance from a river, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 4.3.3 and 5: ὄχθη] Refs 5th c.BC+] is distinguished as the bank of a river, from ὄχθος a hill, in [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 726, 729 (both Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; and this distinction generally holds, but in [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 1.64 we read ὄχθαις ὑπὸ Ταϋγέτου] Refs 5th c.BC+]; and in [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 1132 (Lyric poetry), Νυσαίων ὀρέων ὄχθα; reversely, we have in Sapph. p.44 Lobel, ὄχθοις Ἀχέροντος] Refs 5th c.BC+]; in [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1161, Ἀχερουσίους ὄχθους] Refs 4th c.BC+]; and in [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 655, Ἰσμήνιον πρὸς ὄχθον] Refs 5th c.BC+]; in late Prose, τὴν ὄχθαν (sic) τῆς θαλάσσης sea- shore, [[ 6th c.AD: Aëtius Medicus 2.203.] Refs 6th c.AD+] —Cf. ὄχθος.