ἔκειτο (ekeito)

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

Found 181 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.455: κέκλινθʼ ἑξείης· παρὰ δέ σφισι μυρίʼ ἔκειτο

Procopius, Historia Arcana 14.10: … , ἀλλ’ ἐπλανᾶτο περιφερομένη πανταχόσε ἡ τῆς δίκης ῥοπὴ ὅπη ἂν αὐτὴν βαρήσας ὁ πλείων χρυσὸς ἀνθέλκειν ἰσχύοι ἔκειτό τε ἐν τῷ δημοσίῳ τῆς ἀγορᾶς καὶ ταῦτα ἐκ Παλατίου καὶ προὐτίθετο οὐ δικαστικῆς μόνον, ἀλλὰ καὶ νομοθετικῆς πω …

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.