A.anything stored up as valuable, treasure, heirloom, “τῆ νῦν, καὶ σοὶ τοῦτο, γέρον, κ. ἔστω” Il.23.618, cf. Xenoph.2.9, etc.; “δῶρον . . ὅ τοι κ. ἔσται” Od.1.312; “ἐν ἀφνειοῦ πατρὸς κ. κεῖται, χαλκός τε χρυσός τε πολύκμητός τε σίδηρος” Il.6.47; opp. live chattels (πρόβασις), Od.2.75 (pl.), S.El.438, E. Heracl.591; of a person, Id.Rh.654; of a fish, “κ. Ἀμφιτρίτης” Theoc. 21.55: metaph., κ. ἐσθλά. of γνῶμαι, E.Fr.362.4: rare in Prose, Hdt. 3.41, Luc.Prom.Es4, PGiss.35.2 (iii A.D.): metaph., “φίλος ἀνυπόστατον κ.” Secund.Sent.11; in bad sense, “κακὸν κ.” Hp.Lex4.
κειμήλι-ον , τό, (κεῖμαι)
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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