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ἐκεῖνος , ἐκείνη, ἐκεῖνο, also κεῖνος (regular in Ep., Ion. (as SIG37.3 (Teos, v B.C.), though Hdt. prefers ἐκεῖνος), and Lyr., in Trag. κεῖνος only where the metre requires, cf. A.Pers.230,792, S.Aj.220 (anap.), etc. ; but not in Att. Prose, and in Com. only in mock Trag. passages) : Aeol. κῆνος Sapph.2.1 : Dor. τῆνος Theoc.1.4, etc. : in Com., strengthd. ἐκεινοσί Eup.277 (prob.), Ar.Eq.1196, etc. ; ἐκεινοσίν A.D.Pron.59.24 : (ἐκεῖ):—demonstr. Pron.
A.the person there, that person or thing, Hom., etc. : generally with reference to what has gone immediately before, Pl.Phd.106c, X.Cyr.1.6.9, etc. ; but when οὗτος and ἐκεῖνος refer to two things before mentioned, ἐκεῖνος, prop. belongs to the more remote, in time, place, or thought, οὗτος to the nearer, Pl.Euthd.271b, etc. : but ἐκεῖνος sts. = the latter, X.Mem. 1.3.13, D.8.72, Arist.Pol.1325a7, etc. : ἐκεῖνος is freq. the predicate to οὗτος or “ὅδε, οὗτος ἐκεῖνος τὸν σὺ ζητέεις” Hdt.1.32 ; “τοῦτ᾽ ἔστ᾽ ἐκεῖνο” E.Hel.622 ; ἆρ᾽ οὗτός ἐστ᾽ ἐκεῖνος ο<*>ν..; Ar.Pax240, etc. : also joined as if one Pron., “τοῦτ᾽ ἐκεῖνο..δέρκομαι” S.El.1115, etc. ; κατ᾽ ἐκεῖνο καιροῦ at that point of time, Plu.Alex.32, etc. ; “ἐς ἐ. τοῦ χρόνου” D.C. 46.49 ; ἀλλ᾽ ἐκεῖνο, à propos, Luc.Nigr.8.
2. to denote wellknown persons, etc., “κεῖνος μέγας θεός” Il.24.90 ; “ἐκεῖνος ἡνίκ᾽ ἦν Θουκυδίδης” Ar.Ach.708 ; “καίτοι φασὶν Ἰφικράτην ποτ᾽ ἐκεῖνον..” D.21.62 ; “ὦ παῖ 'κείνου τἀνδρός” Pl.Phlb.36d.
b. “ἐκεῖνα” the ideal world, Id.Phdr.250a.
3. for things, of which one cannot remember or must not mention the name, = ὁ δεῖνα, so-and-so, Ar.Nu.195.
b. in formulae, “τεθνάτω καὶ οἱ παῖδες οἱ ἐξ ἐκείνου” IG12.10.33.
4. with simple demonstr. force, Ἶρος ἐκεῖνος ἧσται Irus sits there, Od.18.239 ; νῆες ἐκεῖναι ἐπιπλέουσιν there are ships sailing up, Th.1.51.
5. in orat. obliq. where prop. the reflex. Pron. αὑτοῦ would stand, X. HG 1.6.14, Is.8.22, etc.
6. after a Relat. in apodosi almost pleon., X.Cyr. 1.4.19 (s.v.l.).
7. in Aeol. and Att. the Subst. with ἐκεῖνος prop. has the Art. (“κῆνος ὤνηρ” Alc. Supp. 25.6), and ἐκεῖνος may precede or follow the Subst., “ἐκείνῃ τῇ ἡμέρᾳ” Th. 1.20, Pl. Phd. 57a ; τὴν στρατείαν ἐ., τὸν ἄνδρ᾽ ἐ., Th. 1.10, Ar. Pax649 : in Poets the Art. is freq. omitted, “ἤματι κείνψ” Il. 2.37, etc. ; but when this is the case in Prose, ἐκεῖνος follows the Subst., “ἡμέρας ἐκείνης” Th. 3.59, etc.
II. Adv. “ἐκείνως” in that case, Id.1.77, 3.46 ; in that way, Hp.Fract. 27 ; “ζῆν” Pl. R. 516d, etc.: Ion. κείνως Hdt. 1.120.
III. dat. fem. ἐκείνῃ as Adv.,
1. of Place, at that place, in that neighbourhood, Hdt. 8.106, Th. 4.77, etc. ; κείνῃ (sc. ὁδῷ) Od. 13.111.
2. of Manner, in that manner, Pl. R. 556a, etc.
IV. with Preps., ἐξ ἐκείνου from that time, X. Ages.1.17 ; “ἀπ᾽ ἐκείνου” Luc. DMar. 2.2 ; κατ᾽ ἐκεῖνα in that region, X. HG 3.5.17, etc. ; “μετ᾽ ἐκεῖνα” afterwards, Th. 5.81 ; cf. ἐπέκεινα.
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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