διέκειτο (diekeito)

διέκειτο is an Ancient Greek form of διάκειμαι, meaning “be disposed, be in a state”. It is the 3rd person singular imperfect middle/passive indicative.

Found 57 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 2.6.50: … ἦν αὐτῷ. τὰ μὲν οὖν ἄλλα τὰ κατὰ τὴν ἀνάβασιν γενόμενα καὶ τὴν κάθοδον ἱκανῶς αὐτὸς ἡμῖν διηγεῖται. ἐχθρῶς δὲ διέκειτο πρὸς Μένωνα τὸν Φαρσάλιον παρὰ τὸν χρόνον τῆς ἀναβάσεως τὸν ξεναγόν· ὅτε καὶ λοιδορῶν αὐτόν φησιν αὑτοῦ μείζο …

John of Damascus, Saint, Vita Barlaam et Joasaph 11.86: … δωλολατρείαν ἀπὸ καρδίας μισήσας· καί, πρὸ τοῦ εἰσελθεῖν γάρ σε πρός με, πλαγίως πως καὶ διστάζων πρὸς ταύτην διέκειτό μου ἡ ψυχή· νυνὶ δὲ τέλειον μῖσος ἐμίσησα, μαθὼν παρὰ σοῦ τὴν ματαιότητα τούτων καὶ τὴν ἀφροσύνην τῶν αὐτοῖς …

All forms of διάκειμαι (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.