βασιλεύς: Difference between revisions

|mdlsjtxt=[deriv. uncertain]<br /><b class="num">I.</b> a [[king]], [[chief]], Hom.: [[later]] it was an [[hereditary]] [[king]], opp. to [[τύραννος]], Hdt., [[attic]]; [[ἄναξ]] β. [[lord]] [[king]], Aesch.: c. gen., β. [[νεῶν]] Aesch.; οἰωνῶν β., of the [[eagle]], Aesch.:—Hom. has a comp. [[βασιλεύτερος]] [[more]] of a [[king]], [[more]] [[kingly]], Sup. [[βασιλεύτατος]] [[most]] [[kingly]].<br /><b class="num">2.</b> of the [[king]]'s son, [[prince]], or any one [[sharing]] in the [[government]], Od.<br /><b class="num">3.</b> [[generally]], a [[lord]], [[master]], householder, Il., Pind.<br /><b class="num">II.</b> at [[Athens]], the [[second]] of the [[nine]] Archons was called [[βασιλεύς]]; he had [[charge]] of the [[public]] [[worship]], and the [[conduct]] of [[criminal]] processes, Plat., etc.<br /><b class="num">III.</b> [[after]] the Persian war, the [[king]] of [[Persia]] was called [[βασιλεύς]] (without the Art.), Hdt., [[attic]]; [[more]] [[rarely]] ὁ [[βασιλεύς]], or ὁ [[μέγας]] βας. Hdt.