ἔκειντο (ekeinto)

ἔκειντο is an Ancient Greek form of κεῖμαι, meaning “to lie, be laid down”. It is the 3rd person plural imperfect middle/passive indicative.

Found 35 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 2.61: ἦκα δὲ μειδήσας, οἵ οἱ παρὰ ποσσὶν ἔκειντο,

Plutarch, De Pythiae oraculis 14: ἐπεὶ δὲ τὸν Ἀκανθίων καὶ Βρασίδου παρελθοῦσιν οἶκον ἡμῖν ἔδειξεν ὁ περιηγητὴς χωρίον, ἐν ᾧ Ῥοδώπιδος ἔκειντό ποτε τῆς ἑταίρας ὀβελίσκοι σιδηροῖ, δυσχεράνας ὁ Διογενιανὸς ἦν ἄρα τῆς αὐτῆς ἔφη πόλεως Ῥοδώπιδι μὲν χώραν π …

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.