The corpus record

κατάκειμαι

katakeimai

lie down, lie hid, lie stored up

Generated live from the audited corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

Symposium 15 · 8.6/10k
On the Sacred Disease 3 · 6.54/10k
Lysistrata 4 · 5.04/10k
Acharnians 3 · 4.22/10k
On the Murder of Eratosthenes 1 · 4.16/10k
Against Alcibiades 1 1 · 4.15/10k
Mark 4 · 3.63/10k
Works and Days 2 · 3.47/10k
Against Conon 1 · 3.15/10k
Ecclesiazusae 2 · 2.62/10k
Plutus 2 · 2.48/10k
Proverbia 2 · 1.8/10k

Densest 12 of 38 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

κατάκειμαι · katakeimai — LSJ

lie down

lie down, μῆλα τὰ δὴ κατάκειτʼ ἐσφαγμένα Od. 10.532; ἐπὶ πλευρὰς κ. Il. 24.10; νέκυς κ. Tyrt. 11.19; ἐφʼ ἁρμαμαξῶν μαλθακῶς κατακείμενοι Ar. Ach. 70.

2 lie hid

lie hid, ἐν λόχμῃ . . κατέκειτο μέγας σῦς Od. 19.439; θάμνῳ ὑπʼ ἀμφικόμῳ κατακείμενος Il. 17.677.

3 lie stored up

lie stored up, δοιοὶ γάρ τε πίθοι κατακείαται ἐν Διὸς οὔδει Il. 24.527; τό γʼ ἐν οἴκῳ κατακείμενον ἀνέρα κήδει Hes. Op. 364: metaph., ἄλγεα . . ἐν θυμῷ κ. Il. 24.523.

b to be deposited

to be deposited, of deeds in a registry, POxy. 1040.32 (iii A.D.), etc.

4 lie sick, keep oneʼs bed, lie in bed

lie sick, keep oneʼs bed, Hdt. 7.229, Ev.Marc. 1.30, etc.; lie in bed, Ar. Ec. 313; ἐφʼ ὃ κατέκειτο Ev.Luc. 5.25.

5 lodge, reside

lodge, reside, Hp. Epid. 1.4.5 [1.26.εʹ], 3.1.γʹ, al.

6 to be idle, lie neglected

to be idle, X. An. 3.1.14; of things, lie neglected, καθεύδειν ἐᾶν ἐν τῇ γῇ κατακείμενα τὰ τείχη Pl. Lg. 778d.

7 recline at meals

recline at meals, πῖνε, κατάκεισο Ar. Ach. 985, cf. Hdt. 3.121, Pl. Smp. 185d, Ev.Marc. 14.3.

8 lie sloping to the sea

of land, lie sloping to the sea, πρῶνες ἔξοχοι -κεινται Pi. N. 4.52.

9 is expended, on

ἀρετᾷ κατάκειται πᾶσαν ὀργάν is expended in every impulse on . . , Id. I. 1.41.

In the wild

κατακείμενοι · katakeimenoi Aristophanes, Acharnians (DIORISIS sentence 50)
κατακείμενος · katakeimenos Aristophanes, Acharnians (DIORISIS sentence 51)
κατάκεισο · katakeiso Aristophanes, Acharnians (DIORISIS sentence 747)
κατάκειμαι · katakeimai Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae (DIORISIS sentence 229)
κατακείμενον · katakeimenon Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae (DIORISIS sentence 406)
κατέκειτʼ · katekeitʼ Aristophanes, Frogs 489

6 of 98 attestations shown. Ask for more.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

Downloads

Word record (JSON)·Concordance (CSV)·Frequencies (CSV)·Cite (BibTeX)

CC BY 4.0 with receipt attribution — every file carries its license line. What is exportable

Ask the librarian

Ask about κατάκειμαι →