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βασίλειον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: βασίλειον βασίλειου

Structure: βασιλει (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: basileu/s

Sense

  1. a kingly dwelling, palace
  2. the royal treasury

Declension

Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • οὐκοῦν μηδὲ περὶ τοῦ ἀετοῦ εἴπω, ὅτι καὶ οὗτοσ ἐν τῷ οὐρανῷ ἐστιν, ἐπὶ τοῦ βασιλείου σκήπτρου καθεζόμενοσ καὶ μονονουχὶ ἐπὶ κεφαλὴν σοι νεοττεύων, θεὸσ εἶναι δοκῶν ; (Lucian, Deorum concilium, (no name) 8:6)
  • Οὐ πρῶτοσ Ἀνάχαρσισ ἀφίκετο ἐκ Σκυθίασ Ἀθήναζε παιδείασ ἐπιθυμίᾳ τῆσ Ἑλληνικῆσ, ἀλλὰ καὶ Τόξαρισ πρὸ αὐτοῦ, σοφὸσ μὲν καὶ φιλόκαλοσ ἀνὴρ καὶ ἐπιτηδευμάτων φιλομαθὴσ τῶν ἀρίστων, οἴκοι δὲ οὐ τοῦ βασιλείου γένουσ ὢν οὐδὲ τῶν πιλοφορικῶν, ἀλλὰ Σκυθῶν τῶν πολλῶν καὶ δημοτικῶν, οἱοῖ́ εἰσι παῤ αὐτοῖσ οἱ ὀκτάποδεσ καλούμενοι, τοῦτο δέ ἐστι, δύο βοῶν δεσπότην εἶναι καὶ ἁμάξησ μιᾶσ. (Lucian, Scytha 1:1)
  • σὺ δὲ ὁ οὕτωσ ὑψηλὸσ καταπεσὼν ἀνάσπαστοσ ἐκ τοῦ βασιλείου θρόνου τὴν αὐτὴν ὁδὸν ἄπει τοῖσ πολλοῖσ, ἰσότιμοσ ἐλαυνόμενοσ ἐν τῇ ἀγέλῃ τῶν νεκρῶν, χῶμα ὑψηλὸν ὑπὲρ γῆσ καὶ στήλην μακρὰν ἢ πυραμίδα εὔγραμμον τὰσ γωνίασ ἀπολιπών, ἐκπρόθεσμα καὶ ἀνεπαίσθητα φιλοτιμήματα· (Lucian, 68:2)
  • βασιλείου Τ δὲ μύρου μνημονεύει Κράτησ ἐν Γείτοσιν λέγων οὕτωσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 423)
  • γλυκύτατον δ’ ὦζε βασιλείου μύρου. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 424)

Synonyms

  1. the royal treasury

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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