μήκει (mekei)

μήκει is an Ancient Greek form of μῆκος, meaning “length”. It is the dative singular neuter noun.

Found 518 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.62.2: … ἂν ἑκατέρῳ, τὸ δὲ ξυνδιασῶσαι, καὶ τὰς τιμὰς καὶ λαμπρότητας ἀκινδυνοτέρας ἔχειν τὴν εἰρήνην, ἄλλα τε ὅσα ἐν μήκει λόγων ἄν τις διέλθοι, ὥσπερ περὶ τοῦ πολεμεῖν; ἃ χρὴ σκεψαμένους μὴ τοὺς ἐμοὺς λόγους ὑπεριδεῖν, τὴν δὲ αὑτοῦ …

Arrian, Indica 16.8: ἐν δὲ τῇσιν ἀριστερῇσι πέλται εἰσὶν αὐτοῖσιν ὠμοβόιναι, στεινότεραι μὲν ἢ κατὰ τοὺς φορέοντας, μήκεϊ δὲ οὐ πολλὸν ἀποδέουσαι. τοῖσι δὲ ἄκοντες ἀντὶ τόξων εἰσί.

All forms of μῆκος (declension 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.