• COAST

1. litus (as the line of coast): ora (as a more extended space, bordering on the sea). To lie at anchor off a coast, in salo navem tenere in ancoris OBS., acta (= litus) should not be used except with reference to Greek history, etc. [according to Döderlein’s Synonyms, “coast as presenting agreeable views, a pleasant risidence,” etc.] Towns on the coast, urbes maritimae.

2. v. To coast by a place, oram or locum aliquem praetervehi (passing by and leaving it): oram legere (creeping along by it). Vid: “sail by,” under SAIL.