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κατακείμενος (katakeimenos)

κατακείμενος is an Ancient Greek form of κατάκειμαι, meaning “lie down; lie sick”. It is the perfect middle/passive participle nominative singular masculine.

It can also be a form of κατακείω, “lie down to sleep”.

Found 47 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 7.1.24: ἐν συμποσίῳ κατακείμενος σιγῇ τὴν αἰτίαν ἠρωτήθη· ἔφη οὖν τῷ ἐγκαλέσαντι ἀπαγγεῖλαι πρὸς τὸν βασιλέα ὅτι παρῆν τις σιωπᾶν ἐπιστάμενος· …

Zonaras, Epitome historiarum (Vol. 1) 3.5: … ς μετὰ Περσῶν τε καὶ Μηδῶν ἐστράτευσεν. οὗτος γοῦν πότον ποιήσας τοῖς μεγιστᾶσιν αὐτοῦ, καὶ μετὰ τῶν παλλακῶν κατακείμενός τε καὶ φεθυσκόμενος, ἐκέλευσεν ἐνεχθῆναι τὰ σκεύη τὰ ἱερὰ ἃ ἐξ Ἱεροσολύμων ὁ Ναβουχοδονόσορ ἐσύλησεν καὶ τοῖς …

All forms of κατάκειμαι (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.