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Rhīpaei or Rhīphaei (Rīp-), montes, a range of mountains in the most northern part of Scythia, where are the sources of the Tanais, Mel. 1, 19, 13; 2, 1, 1; 3, 5, 1; Plin. 4, 12, 24, § 78; 6, 5, 5, § 15; Enn. Ann. 4, 5 al.
Less freq. in sing.: Rhipaeus mons, Mel. 1, 19, 18 and 20.
Hence Rhī-paeus or Rhīphaeus (Rīp-), a, um, adj., Rhiphæan: arces, Verg. G. 1, 240: Eurus, id. ib. 3, 382: pruinae, id. ib. 4, 518: grando, Stat. Th. 1, 420: nives, Luc. 4, 118: bruma, Val. Fl. 5, 603; Col. 10, 77: mons, Mel. 1, 19, 13; 2, 1, 1.
rīpa, ae, f. [etym. dub.; cf. rivus],
- I. 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.
Rīpaeus, v. Rhip-.
rīpārĭenses or rīpārenses, ĭum, m. [ripa], troops stationed on the bank of a river, Vop. Aur. 38; Cod. Th. 7, 1, 18; 7, 4, 14.
rīpārĭus, a, um, adj. [ripa], that frequents the banks of rivers: hirundines, bank-martins, sand-martins, Plin. 30, 4, 12, § 33.