2. anxiety, grief, Il.13.464, al. (v. infr.11): mostly in pl., troubles, “Ἀργείοισι πολύστονα κήδε᾽ ἐφῆκεν” Il.1.445; “Τρώεσσι δὲ κήδε᾽ ἐφῆπται ἐκ Διός” 2.69; “ὅσ᾽ ἐμῷ ἔνι κ. θυμῷ” 18.53, cf.Od.4.108; “ὁππόσα κήδε᾽ ἀνέτλης” 14.47.
b. esp. for the dead, funeral rites, mourning, “πατέρι δὲ γόον καὶ κήδεα λυγρὰ λεῖπ᾽” Il.5.156, etc.; “θάνατος καὶ κ.” 4.270; κήδε᾽ ἐμῶν ἑτάρων mourning for them, 22.272; “κ. στονόεντα” Archil.9, cf. A.Ch.469 (lyr.), Plu.Sol.12, etc.: sg., “κᾶδος φθιμένου θήκασθαι” Pi.P.4.112, cf. N.1.54; ἅμα κήδεϊ when there is a death in the family, Hdt.2.36; ἐς τὸ κ. ἰέναι to attend the funeral, Id.6.58, cf. SIG1218.18 (Iulis, v B.C.); “ἐπὶ τὸ κ. ἀφικέσθαι” Isoc.19.31; “θυραῖον κ. ἐς τάφον φέρειν” E.Alc.828; “ὅταν οἰκεῖον . . κ. γένηται” Pl.R.605d; εἰς τὰ κήδη . . οἱ συγγενεῖς ἀπαντῶσι attend at funerals, Arist.EN1165a20.
II. connexion by marriage, Hdt.7.189; “κ. ἐγγενές” A.Supp.331; κ. Ἀδράστου λαβών, i.e. having married his daughter, E.Ph.77, cf. S.OC379; “κατ᾽ ἐπιγαμίαν τῷ ἀσκητῇ κ. συνάπτειν” Ph.1.553; τὸ κ. ξυνάψασθαι τῆς θυγατρός contract the marriage for one's own daughter, Th.2.29; so some wrongly explain Il.13.464, cf. 15.245, 16.516 (v.supr.1.2a).
