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θίς

this · ὁ

heap, sand-banks, sandy deserts

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  • Baruch 1 · 3.96/10k
  • Odyssey 24 · 2.76/10k
  • Persians 1 · 1.96/10k
  • Antigone 1 · 1.36/10k
  • Iliad 13 · 1.17/10k
  • Philoctetes 1 · 1.14/10k
  • Job 1 · 0.75/10k
  • Deuteronomium 1 · 0.45/10k
  • Meditations 1 · 0.34/10k
  • Genesis 1 · 0.33/10k
  • Republic 2 · 0.23/10k
  • Histories 1 · 0.05/10k

What it meant — LSJ

heap, sand-banks, sandy deserts

heap, πολὺς ὀστεόφιν θίς Od. 12.45; θῖνες νεκρῶν A. Pers. 818: metaph., θὶς πημάτων Lyc. 812; esp. of sand-banks, θῖνες ψάμμου Hdt. 3.26; ἄμμου, γῆς, Plu. Fab. 6, Art. 18; τοὺς ἐν ἄμμῳ θῖνας Phld. Piet. 20; ἐν ταῖς θ. Arist. HA 548b6, cf. 537a25; θῖνας καὶ ψάμμους Porph. Abst. 4.21; of the sandy deserts of Libya, A.R. 4.1384; Νασαμώνων αὔλια καὶ δολιχὰς θ. Call. Fr. 126.

2 beach, shore

usu. in Hom., etc., beach, shore, freq. in oblique cases, παρὰ θῖνα . . θαλάσσης Il. 1.34, cf. Od. 6.236, etc.; παρὰ θῖνʼ ἁλὸς ἀτρυγέτοιο Il. 1.316, cf. 350, etc.; alone, ἐπὶ θινί Od. 7.290; παρὰ θῖνα 9.46; later θῖνʼ ἁλός Ar. V. 1521 (parod.); πόντου S. Ph. 1124 (lyr.); θαλάσσας E. Andr. 109 (eleg.); θαλαττία D.H. 3.44.

b sand-bank, bar, banks

sand-bank, bar at the mouth of a river, Plb. 4.41.6: pl., banks of a stream, D.S. 1.30.

3 sand, mud, the very bottom

sand or mud at the bottom of the sea, οἶδμα . . κυλίνδει βυσσόθεν κελαινὰν θῖνα S. Ant. 591: metaph., ὥς μου τὸν θῖνα ταράττεις, i.e. trouble the very bottom of my heart, Ar. V. 696, v. Sch.

4 shore-weed

shore-weed, θίνʼ ἐν φυκιόεντι Il. 23.693, cf. Arist. HA 598a5; θινὸς ὄζειν ib. 620a15.

II the temple that crowns

ἄκρης [πόλιος] θίς the temple that crowns the Acropolis, dub. in Call. Fr.anon. 332.

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Where it came from

  • Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. θίς (scan p. 451; entry #3168).

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