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ὄχθην (ochthen)

ὄχθην is an Ancient Greek form of ὄχθη, meaning “bank, hill”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun.

Found 35 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Romulus 2.2: … · ἐν δὲ τῷ ποταμῷ πλημμύραντι τῶν ἄλλων σκαφῶν διαφθαρέντων, ἐν ᾧ δʼ ἦσαν οἱ παῖδες εἰς μαλακὴν ἀποκλινθέντος ὄχθην ἀτρέμα, σωθέντας ἀπροσδοκήτως ὄνομα θεῖναι Ῥώμην.

All forms of ὄχθη (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.