A). any height or rising ground, natural or artificial, bank, dyke by the side of a river, ὑψηλὴν βάλεν ὄχθην Il. 21.171 , cf. 172 : in sg., also, Plu. Publ. 16 , Arr. An. 1.14.4 , CPHerm. 95.10 (iii A. D.): mostly in pl., raised banks of a river, in full, ποταμοῖο παρ’ ὄχθας Il. 4.487 , 18.533 , cf. 3.187 ; παρ’ ὄχθῃσιν ποταμοῖο Od. 6.97 ; Καφισοῦ παρ’ ὄχθαις Pi. P. 4.46 , cf. Xenoph. 2.21 , A. Pr. 810 , Th. 392 , etc.; ὄχθαι καπέτοιο the raised banks of the trench, dykes, Il. 15.356 ; also, heights beside the sea, ἁλὸς παρ’ ὄχθας Od. 9.132 ; ταὶ ὑπὲρ Κύμας ἁλιερκέες ὄ. Pi. P. 1.18 , cf. 12.2 ; also of rising banks at a little distance from a river, X. An. 4.3.3 and 5 : ὄχθη is distd. as the bank of a river, from ὄχθος a hill, in S. Ph. 726 , 729 (both lyr.); and this distn. generally holds, but in Pi. P. 1.64 we read ὄχθαις ὑπὸ Ταϋγέτου; and in S. Ant. 1132 (lyr.), Νυσαίων ὀρέων ὄχθαι; reversely, we have in Sapph. p.44 Lobel, ὄχθοις Ἀχέροντος; in A. Ag. 1161 , Ἀχερουσίους ὄχθους; and in E. Supp. 655 , Ἰσμήνιον πρὸς ὄχθον; in late Prose, τὴν