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κειμένης (keimenes)

κειμένης is an Ancient Greek form of κεῖμαι, meaning “to lie, be laid down”. It is the perfect middle/passive participle genitive singular feminine.

Found 49 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Sulla 8.1: … ὅς γε τὴν Ῥωμαίων πολιτείαν ἐξελευθερικοῖς καὶ μετοίκοις πωλῶν ἀναφανδὸν ἠρίθμει τιμὴν διὰ τραπέζης ἐν ἀγορᾷ κειμένης.

All forms of κεῖμαι (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.