The corpus record

ὄχθος

ochthos · ὁ

eminence, bank, hill

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Where it lives

Persians 3 · 5.89/10k
Iphigenia in Tauris 4 · 4.82/10k
On the Cavalry Commander 2 · 3.48/10k
On the Art of Horsemanship 2 · 2.88/10k
Electra 2 · 2.65/10k
Heracles 2 · 2.56/10k
Libation Bearers 1 · 1.86/10k
Suppliants 1 · 1.42/10k
Trojan Women 1 · 1.41/10k
Trachiniae 1 · 1.38/10k
Bacchae 1 · 1.33/10k
Philoctetes 1 · 1.14/10k

Densest 12 of 14 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant — LSJ

eminence, bank, hill, barrow, mound, riverʼs bank

eminence, bank, hill, first in h.Ap. 17, Sapph. Supp. 13.11, Pi. O. 9.3, freq. in Hdt. (9.25, al.), A. (v. infr.), and E., as Ἄρειος ὄ. IT 961 of the Areopagus, cf. Hdt. 8.52; of a barrow or mound, A. Pers. 647, 659 (both lyr.), Ch. 4: rarely, like ὄχθη, of a riverʼs bank, v. ὄχθη sub fin. (ὄχθῳ ἐφεζόμενοι παρʼ Ἕβρον ποταμόν Ar. Av. 774 need not be taken in this sense).—In A. Ch. 954, dat. ὄχθει (as if from ὄχθος, εος, τό) is corrupt.

II tubercle

tubercle in leprosy, Aret. SD 2.13, Ruf. ap. Orib. 45.28.3.

2 tubercle

tubercle on plants, Archig. ap. Gal. 12.263, Man. 1.54.

In the wild

ὄχθῳ · ochthōi Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 4–6
ὄχθος · ochthos Aeschylus, Persians 647
ὄχθου · ochthou Aeschylus, Persians 659–662
ὄχθον · ochthon Aeschylus, Persians 466–467
ὄχθων · ochthōn Euripides, Bacchae 1061–1062
ὄχθον · ochthon Euripides, Electra *dio/skouroi (DIORISIS sentence 812)

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Where it came from

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