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βα^σίλ-ειος , ον, also α, ον A.Pers.589, IG12.115; Ion. and Aeol. βα^σιλ-ήϊος , η, ον, also βα^σιλ-ῇος Melinnoap.Stob.3.7.12, Hymn.Is.138:—
A.royal, “δεινὸν δὲ γένος βασιλήϊόν ἐστι κτείνειν” Od.16.401; “ὁ β. θρόνος” Hdt.1.14, etc.; used by Trag. in lyr., β. οἶκοι, μέλαθρα, A.Ag.157, Ch.343; ἰσχύς, τιάρα, Id.Pers.589,661; νόστος ὁ β. the king's return, ib.8; “τοῖς β. νόμοις” S.Ant.382; cf. πῆχυς.
2. of the archon “βασιλεύς, ἡ β. στοά” IG12.115, Arist.Ath.7.1, Paus.1.3.1 (also of the basilica of Herod at Jerusalem, J.AJ15.11.5).
3. 'royal', i.e.choice, “μύρον” Sapph.Supp.23.19, Crates Com.2; cf. βασίλεια: γένος ἰσχάδων, Hsch.
4. Ἄρτεμις βασιληΐη, divinity in Thrace, Hdt.4.33.
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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