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ῥαχία

ῥαχία, the sea breaking on the shore

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ῥαχίαισιν feminine dative plural of ῥαχία

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ῥᾱχία, Ion. ῥηχίη, ἡ,
  • flood-tide, opp. ἄμπωτις, Hdt. 2.11, 7.198; joined with πλημυρίς (s. v. l.), Id. 8.129, cf. Hp. ap. Gal. 19.135.
      • 2 the roar of the breakers, metaph. of a crowd of people, ὄχλου τοιούτου ῥαχίαν ἠθροισμένην Posidipp. 27.11; ῥ. ποιεῖν ἐν δήμῳ Plu. An seni 2.789d, cf. 791a: prov., ῥαχίας λαλίστερος Diogenian. 7.99.
    • II rocky shore or beach (πᾶς πετρώδης αἰγιαλός Hsch.), ἁλίστονοι ῥ. A. Pr. 713; παρʼ αὐτὴν τὴν ῥ. Th. 4.10, cf. Plb. 3.39.4, Str. 16.4.23.
      • 2 = ῥάχις II.1, S. Fr. 1088;= ῥάχις I, Nonn. D. 11.182, 39.334 (v. ad fin.). [ῥᾰ- metri gr. only in late Poets, as AP 7.393 (Diocl.); in sense II.2, Nonn. Il.cc.] (Cogn. with ῥᾱσσω, ῥήσσω, and ἀράσσω; τὸν τόπον ᾧ προσαράττει τὸ κῦμα, Ael.Dion. Fr. 427: not cogn. with ῥήγνυμι, which has pan-Hellenic η.)

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