BEACH Copy link • BEACHlitus (the shore, as the line which separates the land from the sea: ora, acta (the space and tract of land that borders on the sea, as the coast): ☞ acta (Cic.) is a word of Greek extraction, denoting the coast as beautiful and attractive. Tac. (Hist., 3, 76) expresses it by the circumlocution amoena litorum.