[Greek: Phronô d', ha paschô; kai tod' ou smikron kakon;
to mê eidenai gar hêdonên echei tina
nosounta; _kerdos d' en kakois agnôsia_.]
Euripid. _Frag. Antiop._ xiii.
In the next page of "NOTES AND QUERIES," Q. E. D. reasonably defends the
expression "Thamesini _littoris_ hospes." The exact distinction between
_littus_ and _ripa_ is marked indeed by Ovid, where he says of the
rivers:
"In mare perveniunt partim, campoque recepta
Liberioris aquæ, _pro ripis littora pulsant_."--_Met._ i. 41.
But this did not prevent his applying _littora_ to a lake:
"Sint tibi Flaminius _Thrasymenaque littora_ testes."
_Fast._ vi. 765.
Both he and Virgil use _littus_, speaking of the same river:
"_Littus adit Laurens_; ubi tectus arundine serpit
In freta flumineis vicina Numicius undis."
_Met._ xiv. 598.
Here, however, there might be a question from the context: not so,
however, in _Æn._ vii. 797.:
"Qui saltus, Tiberiae, tuos, sacrumque Numici
_Littus_ arant."
On the other hand we have _ripa_ for _littus_:
"Æquoris nigri fremitum, et trementes
Verbere ripas."
Hor. _Od._ III. xxvii. 23.