LogeionPerseus analysis of βασιλεύς:
βασιλεύς (king, chief): masc nom sg
LSJ entry
βᾰσῐλεύς
βασιλεύς,
ὁ,
gen. έως,
Ep. ῆος,
Cypr. ῆϝος Inscr.Cypr. 104,135H.: acc. βασιλέα, contr. -ῆ Orac. ap. Hdt. 7.220,
E. Fr. 781.24 (lyr.): nom. pl. βασιλεῖς, Aeol. -ηες Sapph. Supp. 6.4,
IG 12(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 IG 12.115,
later βασιλεῖς ib.2.243, etc.:— Α. 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. EN 1160b3,
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, IG 7.3073.90
(Lebad.), SIG 1014.110 (
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.
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,
IG 22.141 (
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., IG 22.641,687,
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.