The corpus record

βᾰσίλ-ειον

basileion · τό

kingly dwelling, palace

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Where it lives

Nahum 1 · 10.83/10k
Critias 5 · 10.12/10k
Epistula Jeremiae 1 · 7.94/10k
Persians 3 · 5.89/10k
Libation Bearers 3 · 5.58/10k
Trojan Women 3 · 4.24/10k
Esther 2 · 3.62/10k
Daniel (LXX) 3 · 2.86/10k
Electra 2 · 2.65/10k
Agamemnon 2 · 2.47/10k
Oeconomica II 1 · 2.13/10k
Economics 1 · 1.61/10k

Densest 12 of 28 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant — LSJ

kingly dwelling, palace

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

seat of empire, capital, Plb. 3.15.3, D.S. 19.18, Str. 1.2.25.

2 royal treasury

royal treasury, Hdt. 2.149: pl., Isoc. 3.31.

II tiara, diadem, diadem

tiara, diadem, LXX 2 Ki. 1.10, Roussel Cultes Égyptiens 233 (Delos, ii B.C.), OGI 90.45 (Rosetta), Plu. Isid. 2.358d, Porph. ap. Eus. PE 3.11, 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 festival of Zeus Basileus

Βασίλεια, τά, festival of Zeus Basileus, in Boeotia, IG 7.552, Sch. Pi. O. 7.153, IG 12(1).78; at Olbia, IPE 1.105.

In the wild

βασίλεια · basileia Aeschylus, Agamemnon 83–84
βασιλείῳ · basileiōi Aeschylus, Agamemnon 92–96
βασιλείοις · basileiois Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 1065–1067
βασίλεια · basileia Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 1068–1070
βασιλείῳ · basileiōi Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 722–725
βασίλεια · basileia Aeschylus, Persians 150–151

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Where it came from

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