κεῖσθαι (keisthai)

κεῖσθαι is an Ancient Greek form of κεῖμαι, meaning “to lie, be laid down”. It is the present middle/passive infinitive.

Found 283 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 4.984: ᾗ ὕπο δὴ κεῖσθαι δρέπανον φάτις—ἵλατε Μοῦσαι,

Plato, Cratylus 438: … μοι λέγειν, ὦ Σώκρατες. τίνα οὖν τρόπον φῶμεν αὐτοὺς εἰδότας θέσθαι ἢ νομοθέτας εἶναι, πρὶν καὶ ὁτιοῦν ὄνομα κεῖσθαί τε καὶ ἐκείνους εἰδέναι, εἴπερ μὴ ἔστι τὰ πράγματα μαθεῖν ἀλλʼ ἢ ἐκ τῶν ὀνομάτων; οἶμαι μὲν ἐγὼ τὸν ἀληθέστατ …

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.