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|mdlsjtxt=<br /><b class="num">I.</b> to be laid (used as a Pass. to [[τίθημι]]), and so to lie, lie outstretched, Hom., etc.; ὁ δ' ἐπ' [[ἐννέα]] κεῖτο πέλεθρα lay stretched [[over]] [[nine]] plethra, Od.; κειμένωι ἐπεμπηδᾶν to [[kick]] him [[when]] he's [[down]], Ar.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> to lie [[asleep]], [[repose]], Hom., etc.:—also, to lie [[idle]], lie [[still]], Hom.; ὑπὸ γαστέρ' ἐλυσθεὶς κείμην of [[Ulysses]] under the ram's [[belly]], Od.; κακὸν κείμενον a sleeping [[evil]], Soph.<br /><b class="num">3.</b> to lie [[sick]] or wounded, lie in [[misery]], Hom., Soph., etc.; to lie at the [[mercy]] of the [[conqueror]], Aesch.<br /><b class="num">4.</b> to lie [[dead]], like Lat. jacere, Hom., Hdt., Trag.<br /><b class="num">5.</b> to lie neglected or uncared for, of an [[unburied]] [[corpse]], Il.;—so also of places, to lie in ruins, Aesch.<br /><b class="num">6.</b> of wrestlers, to [[have]] a [[fall]], Aesch., Ar.<br /><b class="num">II.</b> of places, to lie, be [[situated]], Od., Hdt., [[attic]]<br /><b class="num">III.</b> to be laid up, be in [[store]], of [[goods]], [[property]], Hom.;—also of things dedicated to a god, Hdt.; of [[money]], κείμενα deposits, Hdt.<br /><b class="num">IV.</b> to be set up, proposed, κεῖται [[ἄεθλον]] Il.; ὅπλων ἔκειτ' ἀγὼν [[πέρι]] Soph.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> of laws, κεῖται [[νόμος]] the law is laid [[down]], Eur., Thuc.; οἱ νόμοι οἱ κείμενοι the established laws, Ar.; κεῖται [[ζημία]] the [[penalty]] is [[fixed]] by law, Thuc.<br /><b class="num">3.</b> of names, κεῖται [[ὄνομα]] the [[name]] is given, Hdt., Xen.<br /><b class="num">V.</b> metaph., [[πένθος]] ἐνὶ φρεσὶ κεῖται [[grief]] lies [[heavy]] on my [[heart]], Od.; [[ταῦτα]] [[θεῶν]] ἐν γούνασι κεῖται, i. e. these things are yet in the [[power]] of the gods, to [[give]] or not, Il.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> κεῖσθαι ἔν τινι to [[rest]] [[entirely]] or be [[dependent]] on him, Pind.; θεῶι κείμεθα Soph.<br /><b class="num">3.</b> to be so and so, Hdt., Aesch.:—[[simply]], to be, [[νεῖκος]] κ. τισι [[there]] is [[strife]] [[between]] them, Soph.

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