Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon

A.“-ηες” Sapph.Supp.6.4, IG12(2).6 (Mytil.), -ειες ib. 646a45, al., Ep. -ῆες, old Att. “-ῆς” S.Aj.188,960 (both lyr.), cf. Hdn. Gr.1.430: acc. pl. “βασιλέας” IG12.115, later βασιλεῖς ib.2.243, etc.:— king, chief, Hom., etc.: freq. with collat. sense of captain or judge, Hes. Op.202; “διοτρεφέες β.” Il.2.445, etc.; “θεῖοι” Od.4.691, etc.; later, hereditary king, opp. τύραννος, Arist.EN1160b3, etc.; but also of tyrants, as Hiero, Pi.O.1.23; of Gelo, Hdt.7.161; of Pisistratus, Eup.123, cf. Sch. Ar.Ach.61: joined with a Subst., “βασιλεὺς ἀνήρ” Il.3.170, etc.; “ἀνὴρ β.” Hdt.1.90; ἄναξ β. lord king, A.Pers.5, cf. B.17.1: c. gen., “β. νεῶν” A. Ag.114 (anap.); οἰωνῶν β., of the eagle, ibid., Pi.O.13.21: Comp. “βασιλεύτερος” more kingly, Il.9.160,392, Od.15.533, Tyrt.12.7: Sup. “βασιλεύτατος” Il.9.69.

b. of the gods, “Ζεὺς θεῶν β.” Hes.Th.886, cf. Pi.O.7.34, Emp.128.2, etc. (in this sense Hom. uses ἄναξ); as cult title of Zeus, IG7.3073.90 (Lebad.), SIG1014.110 (Erythrae), etc. (but Ζεὺς β., = Ahuramazda, X.Cyr.3.3.21, al., Arr.An.4.20.3); ὁ μέγας β., of God, LXX Ps.47(48).2, Ph.2.107: Sup. “βασιλεύτατοι τῶν θεῶν” Max.Tyr.29.5.

2. as a title of rank, prince, “β. εἰσὶ καὶ ἄλλοι πολλοὶ ἐν . . Ἰθάκῃ” Od.1.394, cf. 8.390, etc.; of Cyrus, X.Oec. 4.16.

b. descendant of a royal house, esp. in Ionia, Arist.Ath. 41.3; βασιλέων οἶκοι 'estates of the royal house', name of a district in Chios, “Ἀθηνᾶ” 20.168.

3. generally, lord, master, Il.18.556, Pi.O.6.47.

4. metaph., “πόλεμος πάντων β.” Heraclit.53; “νόμος ὁ πάντων β.” Pi.Fr.169.

II. at Athens, the second of the nine Archons, IG12.76, al., Antipho 6.38, Lys.6.4, Arist.Pol.1285b17, Ath. 57, etc.; “ἡ τοῦ β. στοά” Pl.Euthphr.2a.

2. title of magistrates in other Greek states, as βασιλᾶες at Elis, GDI1152, cf. IG12(2).6 (Mytil.), etc., Arist.Pol.1322b29.

3. at Rome, β. τῶν ἱερῶν, = rex sacrorum, D.H.5.1, cf. D.C.54.27.

III. after the Persian war (without Art.), the king of Persia, Hdt.7.174,al.; “ἄναξ Ξέρξης β.” A.Pers.5, cf. 144, Ar.Ach.61, Th.8.48, IG22.141 (βασιλῆς βασιλέως ὕποχοι μεγάλου, of the Satraps, A.Pers.24, cf. 44, S.E.M.2.22); less freq. “ὁ βασιλεύς” Hdt.1.132,137, Arist.Pol.1304b13; “β. ὁ μέγας” Hdt. 1.188.

2. of Alexander and his successors, usually with Art., IG22.641,687, Men.293,340(pl.); “Σέλευκος” Antiph.187; Ἀντίγονος Alex.III; “Πτολεμαῖος” Id.244; “Ὀσυμανδύας βασιλεὺς βασιλέων” D.S. 1.47; title used by Parthian kings, Plu.Pomp.38, D.C.37.6, etc.; by Antony, Plu.Ant.54; of God, Apoc.17.14,19.16.

3. of the Roman emperors, AP10.25 (Antip. Thess.); “β. Ῥωμαίων” BGU588.10 (i A.D.), etc., cf. 1 Ep.Ti.2.2, J.AJ14.15.14; “β. αὐτοκράτωρ” IG3.13 (Hadrian), Hdn.1.6.5; without Art., Paus.10.32.19.

IV. of any great man, “πένησί τε καὶ βασιλεῦσιν” Ps.-Phoc.113.

2. first or most distinguished of any class, “Ἡρώδην τὸν β. τῶν λόγων” Philostr. VS2.10.1, cf. Luc.Rh.Pr.II; winner at a game, Poll.9.106, Sch.Pl. Tht.146a; Stoic sage, “μόνος β.” Luc.Herm.16; βασιλέως ἐγκέφαλος 'morsel fit for a king', Clearch.5; β. σῦκα, name of a choice kind, Philem.Lex. ap. Ath.3.76f., cf. Poll.6.81.

V. = συμποσίαρχος, Plu.2.622a, Luc.Sat.4.

VI. wren, Arist.HA592b27.

VII. queen-bee, ib.623b9, GA759a20, etc. (The form βασιλέα is scanned ^ ^ _ in Pi.N.1.39; codd. βασίλεια.）