A.to lie down, went to bed, Od.14.532, cf. 18.428; “ἔνθ᾽ ἴομεν κείοντες” Il.14.340; κείω I will lie, Od.19.340; κειέμεν οὕτω that they will lie thus, 8.315; ὄρσο κέων get thee to bed, 7.342.
2. later, simply, sleep, rest, Arat. 1009.
κείω (A), once in Hom. κέω (v. infr., cf. A.D.Adv.143.11), Ep. Desiderat. of κεῖμαι, βῆ δ᾽ ἴμεναι κείων he went
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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