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[394] βασιλῆες. ‘However, kings there are doubtless many besides me.’ Thus Antinous is called “βασιλεύς” Od.24. 179; Antinous and Eurymachus “βασιλῆες” Od.18. 64; similarly Alcinous was called “βασιλεύς”, but there were twelve other Phaeacian “βασιλῆες” Od.7. 55-65; 8. 391. For the position of the “βασιλεύς” in heroic times, and the hereditary succession to the throne, see Grote, vol. ii. 2nd ed. pp. 84-90.

Homer's Odyssey. W. Walter Merry. James Riddell. D. B. Monro. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1886-1901.

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