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βα^σίλ-ειον , Ion. βα^σιλ-ήϊον , τό,
A.kingly dwelling, palace, X.Cyr.2.4.3, etc.; more common in pl., Hdt.1.30, 178, Arist.Oec.1352a11, etc.
b. seat of empire, capital, Plb.3.15.3, D.S.19.18, Str.1.2.25.
2. royal treasury, Hdt.2.149: pl., Isoc. 3.31.
II. tiara, diadem, LXX 2 Ki.1.10, Roussel Cultes Égyptiens 233 (Delos, ii B.C.), OGI90.45 (Rosetta), Plu.2.358d, Porph. ap. Eus. PE3.11, Horap.1.15: metaph., τὸ β. τῆς εὐπρεπείας diadem of beauty, LXX Wi.5.16.
III. = ἅλιμος, Ps.-Dsc.1.91; = λευκόϊον, Id.3.123.
IV. Βασίλεια, τά, festival of Zeus Basileus, in Boeotia, IG7.552, Sch.Pi.O.7.153, IG12(1).78; at Olbia, IPE1.105.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (8):
    • Herodotus, Histories, 1.30
    • Herodotus, Histories, 2.149
    • Isocrates, Nicocles or the Cyprians, 31
    • Strabo, Geography, 1.2.25
    • Xenophon, Cyropaedia, 2.4.3
    • Polybius, Histories, 3.15.3
    • Old Testament, 2 Samuel, 1.10
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 19.18
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