The corpus record

βασίλειος

basileios

royal, the kingʼs, of the archon βασιλεύς

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Where it lives

Minos 2 · 7.01/10k
1 Peter 1 · 5.8/10k
Daniel (LXX) 5 · 4.76/10k
Psalmi Salomonis 2 · 4.2/10k
Persians 2 · 3.93/10k
Helen 3 · 3.07/10k
Sapientia Salomonis 2 · 2.9/10k
Libation Bearers 1 · 1.86/10k
Histories 32 · 1.74/10k
Works and Days 1 · 1.73/10k
De Mundo 1 · 1.58/10k
Antigone 1 · 1.36/10k

Densest 12 of 30 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant — LSJ

royal, the kingʼs

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 kingʼs return, ib. 8; τοῖς β. νόμοις S. Ant. 382; cf. πῆχυς.

2 of the archon βασιλεύς, basilica

of the archon βασιλεύς, ἡ β. στοά IG 1(2).115, Arist. Ath. 7.1, Paus. 1.3.1 (also of the basilica of Herod at Jerusalem, J. AJ 15.11.5).

3 choice

‘royal’, i.e. choice, μύρον Sapph. 94.19 L.-P., Crates Com. 2; cf. βασίλεια· γένος ἰσχάδων, Hsch.

Ἄρτεμις βασιληΐη, divinity in Thrace, Hdt. 4.33.

In the wild

βασιλείοις · basileiois Aeschylus, Agamemnon 156–157
βασιλείοις · basileiois Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 342–344
βασίλειος · basileios Aeschylus, Persians 65–72
βασιλείου · basileiou Aeschylus, Persians 659–662
βασίλειον · basileion Aristotle, De Mundo (DIORISIS sentence 137)
Βασιληίας · Basilēias Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 8.4 (DIORISIS sentence 7588)

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Where it came from

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