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ἐκεῖσε , poet. κεῖσε (the only form in Hom., used by Trag. where the metre requires), Adv.
A.thither, to that place, opp. ἐκεῖθεν or ἐνθένδε, Hdt. 2.29, A. Pers. 717, etc. ; “ἐκεῖσε κἀκεῖσε” hither and thither, E. Andr. 1131, Hel. 533 ; δεῦρο καὶ αὖθις ἐ. ib. 1141 (lyr.) ; “κἀκεῖσε καὶ τὸ δεῦρο” Id.Ph.266 ; “τῇδε ἐ.” Id.Tr. 333 (anap.) ; “τὸ κεῖσε δεῦρό τε” S. Tr. 929 ; “τὸ τῇδε καὶ τὸ κεῖσε καὶ τὸ δεῦρο” Ar. Av. 425.
2. to the other world, E. Alc. 363 ; ἐνθένδε ἐ. from this world to the other, Pl. Phd. 117c.
3. c. gen., “ἄνειμι δ᾽ ἐ. τοῦ λόγου” Hdt. 7.239, cf. Pl. Lg. 864c.
II. = ἐκεῖ, Hp. Vict. 2.38, Chrysipp.Stoic. 2.244, Plb. 5.51.3, LXX Jb. 39.29, J. AJ 3.2.1, Sch. Pi. O.9.108 ; “τοὺς ἐ. ὄντας” Act.Ap. 22.5.
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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