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ἐκεῖ (not in Hom.), Aeol. κῆ Sapph.51 : Dor. τηνεῖ (q.v.):—Adv.
A.there, in that place, opp. ἐνθάδε, Th.6.83 ; “οἱ ἐ.” S.El.685, etc.; τἀκεῖ what is or happens there, events there, E.Fr.578.5, Th.1.90 ; redundant, “οὗ ἦν ἐ.” LXX 1 Ki.9.10.
2. freq. as euphem. for ἐν Ἅιδου, in another world, “κἀκεῖ δικάζει τἀμπλακήματα Ζεὺς ἄλλος” A.Supp.230, cf. Ch.359 (lyr.), S.Ant.76 ; “εὐδαιμονοίτην, ἀλλ᾽ἐ.” E.Med.1073 ; “εὔκολος μὲν ἐνθάδ᾽, εὔκολος δ᾽ ἐκεῖ” Ar.Ra.82, cf. Pl.Phd.64a, al. ; in full, “ἐκεῖ δ᾽ ἐν Ἅιδου” E.Hec.418 ; οἱ ἐ. euphem. for the dead, A.Ch.355 (lyr.), S.OT776, Pl.R. 427b, Isoc.14.61.
3. Philos., in the intelligible world, Plot.1.2.7, 2.4.5, etc.
II. with Verbs of motion, for ἐκεῖσε, thither, “ἐ. πλέομεν” Hdt.7.147 ; ἐ. ἀπικέσθαι v.l. in Id.9.108 ; “ὁδοῦ τῆς ἐ.” S.OC1019 ; “οἱ ἐ. καταπεφευγότες” Th.3.71, cf. Plb.5.101.10 ; “βλέψον δὲ κἀκεῖ” Men.Epit.103.
III. rarely, of Time, then, S.Ph.395 (lyr.), D.22.38.
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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