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.: