A.a pit or underground cavern at Sparta, into which state-prisoners or their corpses were thrown, Th.1.134, Paus. 4.18.4:—the forms καιάτας and καιέτας are found in Eust.1478.45:— also καιετός , ὁ, fissure produced by earthquake, Str.8.5.7: hence Λακεδαίμονα
καιάδας , ο υ , Dor. α , ὁ,
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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