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βα^σιλ-εία_ , Ion. βα^σιλ-ηΐη , ἡ,
A.kingdom, dominion, Hdt.1.11, etc.; “παιδὸς ἡ β.” Heraclit.52; hereditary monarchy, opp. “τυραννίς, ἐπὶ ῥητοῖς γέρασι πατρικαὶ β.” Th.1.13; “βασιλείας εἴδη τέτταρα” Arist.Pol.1285b20; ἡ πρώτη πολιτεία μετὰ τὰς β. after the age of monarchies, ib.1297b17: metaph., “ἐποίησεν ἡμᾶς β.” Apoc.1.6; “β. τῶν οὐρανῶν” Ev.Matt.3.2; τοῦ θεοῦ ib.6.33, etc.
2. kingly office, “β. καὶ στρατηγία” Arist.Pol.1273a37.
3. at Athens, the office of the archon βασιλεύς, Paus.1.3.1.
4. Pass., being ruled by a king, “τῆς ὑπ᾽ ἐκείνου βασιλείας” Isoc.9.43.
II. diadem, D.S.1.47, OGI90.43 (Rosetta).
III. reign, ib.331.40 (Pergam.), D.S.17.1, POxy.1257.7(iii A. D.); so αἱ β. the reigns of the Kings, title of book of VT; accession to the throne, BGU646.12 (ii A. D.).
IV. concrete, His Majesty, LXX 4 Ki.11.1, 1 Ma.6.47.
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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