"Basileus" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... is a Latinized form of the Greek adjective [Greek: basilike], "royal," and some feminine substantive, such as domus, or stoa, must be understood with it. A certain building at Athens, wherein the [Greek: archon basileus] transacted business and the court of the Areopagus sometimes assembled, was called [Greek: basileios stoa], and it is an accredited theory, though it is by no means proved, that we have here the ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 - "Banks" to "Bassoon" • Various
... ho Thrakon basileus en to Troiko polemo presbeusamenon pros auton hama ton Troon kai ton Achaion, ekeleuse ton Alexandron apodonta ten Helenen, duo par autou labein kalas gynaikas.]—Plutarchi Apothegmata (Opera Moralia et Philosophica, vol. vi. ...
— Shakespeare Jest-Books; - Reprints of the Early and Very Rare Jest-Books Supposed - to Have Been Used by Shakespeare • Unknown |
