a pit, underground cavern, fissure produced by earthquake
a pit or underground cavern at Sparta, into which state-prisoners or their corpses were thrown, Th. 1.134, Paus. 4.18.4:—the forms καιάτας and καιέτας are found in Eust. 1478.45:— also καιετός, ὁ, fissure produced by earthquake, Str. 8.5.7: hence Λακεδαίμονα καιετάεσσαν
full of hollows, abysses
full of hollows or abysses, read by Zenod. for κητώεσσαν in Od. 4.1: but Εὐρώτας καιετάεις Call. Fr. 224, is expld. by καλαμινθώδης in Str. l.c.; cf. καιέτα· καλαμίνθη (Boeot.), Hsch.; καιέτας in Apollon. Lex. s.v. κητώεσσαν; gen. pl. καιατῶν Anon. Lond.36.57.