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Headword: Rhachian
Adler number: rho,59
Translated headword: beach
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
The Attic-speakers [use this word to mean] the shore, and the place on it where the wave breaks. And Thucydides [uses the word] in this way.[1] But the Ionians [use the word for] the ebb and return of the sea.[2]
Greek Original:
Rhachian: hoi Attikoi tên aktên, kai ton topon auton, hôi prosarattei to kuma. kai Thoukudidês houtôs. hoi de Iônes tên ampôtin kai tên anachôrêsin tês thalattês.
Notes:
cf. generally rho 60.
[1] Thucydides 4.10.5 (web address 1); accusative case, as the present headword.
[2] In Herodotus the word refers to a flood-tide, as opposed to a)/mpwtis, the ebb-tide (see LSJ s.v., and cf. alpha 1656).
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography; historiography; science and technology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 5 April 2004@01:54:32.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (x-ref; another keyword; cosmetics) on 5 April 2004@03:27:08.
David Whitehead on 24 August 2011@04:46:08.
David Whitehead on 24 August 2011@04:48:47.
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