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κατάκειμαι , Ep. 3pl.
A.“κατακείαται” Il.24.527: Ion. plpf. “κατεκέατο” Hdt.7.229; subj. “-κέωμαι” Pl.Smp.213b:—Pass., only in pres. and impf. with fut. Med. -κείσομαι:—lie down, “μῆλα τὰ δὴ κατάκειτ᾽ ἐσφαγμένα” Od.10.532; ἐπὶ πλευρὰς κ. Il.24.10; νέκυς κ. Tyrt. 11.19; “ἐφ᾽ ἁρμαμαξῶν μαλθακῶς κατακείμενοι” Ar.Ach.70.
2. lie hid, “ἐν λόχμῃ . . κατέκειτο μέγας σῦς” Od.19.439; “θάμνῳ ὑπ᾽ ἀμφικόμῳ κατακείμενος” Il.17.677.
3. lie stored up, “δοιοὶ γάρ τε πίθοι κατακείαται ἐν Διὸς οὔδει” Il.24.527; “τό γ́ ἐν οἴκῳ κατακείμενον ἀνέρα κήδει” Hes.Op.364: metaph., ἄλγεα . . ἐν θυμῷ κ. Il.24.523.
b. to be deposited, of deeds in a registry, POxy.1040.32 (iii A.D.), etc.
4. lie sick, keep one's bed, Hdt.7.229, Ev.Marc.1.30, etc.; lie in bed, Ar. Ec.313; “ἐφ᾽ ὃ κατέκειτο” Ev.Luc.5.25.
5. lodge, reside, Hp.Epid. 1.26.έ, 3.1.γ́, al.
6. 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, “πῖνε, κατάκεισο” Ar.Ach.985, cf. Hdt. 3.121, Pl.Smp.185d, Ev.Marc.14.3.
8. of land, lie sloping to the sea, “πρῶνες ἔξοχοι -κεινται” Pi.N.4.52.
9. ἀρετᾷ κατάκειται πᾶσαν ὀργάν is expended in every impulse on . . , Id.I.1.41.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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