ripa

rīpa, ae, f. [etym. dub.; cf. rivus], the bank of a stream (while litus is the coast, shore of the sea; v. Döderl. Syn. Part. 3, p. 208; freq. and class. in sing. and plur.), Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 20, 40 (Ann. v. 41 Vahl.):

ripas radentia flumina rodunt,

Lucr. 5, 256:

ex utrāque parte ripae fluminis,

Caes. B. G. 1, 38, 5:

Romulus urbem perennis amnis posuit in ripā,

Cic. Rep. 2, 5, 10; Hor. C. 1, 2, 19:

viridissima gramine ripa,

Verg. G. 3, 144:

turba ad ripas effusa ruebat,

id. A. 6, 305:

umbrosa,

Hor. C. 3, 1, 23:

declivis,

Ov. M. 5, 591; Liv. 1, 37.—

Comically: ripis superat mihi atque abundat pectus laetitiā meum,

Plaut. Stich. 2, 2, 6:

vos mihi amnes estis, vestrā ripā vos sequar,

id. Poen. 3, 3, 18.—

II.

Transf., the shore of the sea: villa semper mare recte conspicit... numquam ex ripā, sed haud paulum submota a litore (sc. respergitur), never ( immediately ) from the bank, but ( rather ) a good way back from the shore, Col. 1, 5, 5: sentiant... Aequoris nigri fremitum, et trementes Verbere ripas, Hor. C. 3, 27, 22:

maris ripa,

App. M. 11, p. 264, 29; Plin. 9, 15, 20, § 50.