Strong G935βασιλεύς
king
- Transliteration
- basileus
- Pronunciation
- bas-il-yooce'
- Morphology
- Greek Noun (Masculine)
Definition
Probably from G939 (through the notion of a foundation of power); a sovereign (abstractly relatively or figuratively): - king.
Detailed definition
βασιλεύς, -έως, ὁ,
[in LXX chiefly for מֶלֶךְ;]
a king: Mat.1:6 2:1; used by courtesy of Herod the Tetrarch, Mat.14:9; of the Roman Emperor, as frequently in κοινή (Deiss., LAE, p. 367), 1Pe.2:13, 17; of the Christ, in the phrase ὁ β. τ. Ἰουδαίων, Mat.2:2, al.; τοῦ Ἰσραήλ, Mrk.15:32, Jhn.1:50 12:13; of God, Mat.5:35, 1Ti.1:17, Rev.15:3; β. βασιλέων, Rev.17:14 19:16; β. τ. βασιλευόντων, 1Ti.6:15 (on the associations of the word to Jewish Hellenists, see Cl. Rev., i, 7).†
(AS)
[in LXX chiefly for מֶלֶךְ;]
a king: Mat.1:6 2:1; used by courtesy of Herod the Tetrarch, Mat.14:9; of the Roman Emperor, as frequently in κοινή (Deiss., LAE, p. 367), 1Pe.2:13, 17; of the Christ, in the phrase ὁ β. τ. Ἰουδαίων, Mat.2:2, al.; τοῦ Ἰσραήλ, Mrk.15:32, Jhn.1:50 12:13; of God, Mat.5:35, 1Ti.1:17, Rev.15:3; β. βασιλέων, Rev.17:14 19:16; β. τ. βασιλευόντων, 1Ti.6:15 (on the associations of the word to Jewish Hellenists, see Cl. Rev., i, 7).†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G935 appears in 107 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- king109
- kings1
- of1
First verses
- Matthew 1:6And Jesse begat David the king; and David the king begat Solomon of her that had been the wife of Urias;
- Matthew 2:1Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem,
- Matthew 2:2Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him.
- Matthew 2:3When Herod the king had heard these things, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.
- Matthew 2:9When they had heard the king, they departed; and, lo, the star, which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child was.
- Matthew 5:35Nor by the earth; for it is his footstool: neither by Jerusalem; for it is the city of the great King.
- Matthew 10:18And ye shall be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them and the Gentiles.
- Matthew 11:8But what went ye out for to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? behold, they that wear soft clothing are in kings’ houses.
- Matthew 14:9And the king was sorry: nevertheless for the oath’s sake, and them which sat with him at meat, he commanded it to be given her.
- Matthew 17:25He saith, Yes. And when he was come into the house, Jesus prevented him, saying, What thinkest thou, Simon? of whom do the kings of the earth take custom or tribute? of their own children, or of strangers?
- Matthew 18:23Therefore is the kingdom of heaven likened unto a certain king, which would take account of his servants.
- Matthew 21:5Tell ye the daughter of Sion, Behold, thy King cometh unto thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass, and a colt the foal of an ass.
- Matthew 22:2The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which made a marriage for his son,
- Matthew 22:7But when the king heard thereof, he was wroth: and he sent forth his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city.
- Matthew 22:11And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment:
- Matthew 22:13Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
- Matthew 25:34Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:
- Matthew 25:40And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
- Matthew 27:11And Jesus stood before the governor: and the governor asked him, saying, Art thou the King of the Jews? And Jesus said unto him, Thou sayest.
- Matthew 27:29And when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand: and they bowed the knee before him, and mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews!
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Detailed Greek dictionary
βᾰσῐλ-εύς, ὁ,
genitive έως, Epic dialect ῆος, [Refs 5th c.AD+ (5th c.AD: Cypria ῆϝος “Inscription Cyprian dialect” 104,135H.: _accusative_ βασιλέα, _contraction_ -ῆ)] Oracle texts cited in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.220, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 781.24 (Lyric poetry): _nominative_ _plural_ βασιλεῖς,)] Aeolic dialect -ηες[Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica “Papyrus fragments” in E. Diehl, 6.4, “IG” 12(2).6 (Mytil.), -ειες [prev. work] 646a45, +others, _Epic dialect_ -ῆες,)] old Attic dialect -ῆς[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 188, 960 (both Lyric poetry), compare 2nd c.AD: Herodianus Grammaticus Gr. 1.430: _accusative_ _plural_ βασιλέας “IG” 12.115, later βασιλεῖς [prev. work] 2.243, etc.)]:— king, chief, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, etc.)]: frequently with collateral sense of captain or judge, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 202; διοτρεφέες β. 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.445, etc.; θεῖοι 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.691, etc.)]; later, hereditary king, opposed to τύραννος, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1160b3, etc.)]; but also of tyrants, as Hiero, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 1.23)]; of Gelo, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.161)]; of Pisistratus, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Eupolis Comicus 123, cf. Scholia 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 61)]: joined with a substantive, βασιλεὺς ἀνήρ [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.170, etc.; ἀνὴρ β. 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.90)]; ἄναξ β. lord king, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 5, compare 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 17.1: with _genitive_, β. νεῶν 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 114 (_anapaest meter_))]; οἰωνῶν β., of the eagle, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. passage], 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 13.21)]: comparative βασιλεύτερος more kingly, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.160, 392, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 15.533, 7th c.BC: Tyrtaeus Elegiacus 12.7)]: superlative βασιλεύτατος [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.69.)]
b of the gods, Ζεὺς θεῶν β. [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 886, compare 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 7.34, 5th c.BC: Empedocles Poeta Philosophus 128.2, etc. (in this sense 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus uses ἄναξ))]; as cult title of Zeus, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“IG” 7.3073.90 (Lebad.), “SIG” 1014.110 (from Erythrae), etc. (but Ζεὺς β., = Ahuramazda, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 3.3.21, +others, 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Anabasis” 4.20.3))]; ὁ μέγας β., of God, [LXX+1st c.AD+ (LXX.Psa.47(48).2, 1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 2.107)]: superlative βασιλεύτατοι τῶν θεῶν [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Maximus Tyrius Sophista 29.5.)]
2 as a title of rank, prince, β. εἰσὶ καὶ ἄλλοι πολλοὶ ἐν.. Ἰθάκῃ [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.394, compare 8.390)], etc.; of Cyrus, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Oeconomicus” 4.16.)]
2.b descendant of a royal house, especially in Ionia, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ἀθηναίων Πολιτεία” 41.3)]; βασιλέων οἶκοι 'estates of the royal house', name of a district in Chios, Ἀθηνᾶ [Refs (20.168.)]
3 generally, lord, master, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.556, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 6.47.)]
4 metaphorically, πόλεμος πάντων β. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (1st c.AD(?): Heraclitus 53; νόμος ὁ πάντων β. 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “Fragmenta.” 169.)]
II at Athens, the second of the nine Archons, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (Inscriptiones Graecae 12.76, +others, 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 6.38, 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 6.4, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1285b17, “Ath.” 57, etc.; ἡ τοῦ β. στοά 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Euthyphro” 2a.)]
II.2 title of magistrates in other Greek states, as βασιλᾶες at Elis, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (“GDI” 1152, compare “IG” 12(2).6 (Mytil.), etc., 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1322b29.)]
II.3 at Rome, β. τῶν ἱερῶν, = rex sacrorum, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 5.1, compare 2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 54.27.)]
III after the Persian war (without Article), the king of Persia, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.174, +others; ἄναξ Ξέρξης β. 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 5, compare 144, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 61, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.48, “IG” 22.141 (βασιλῆς βασιλέως ὕποχοι μεγάλου,)] of the Satraps, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 24, compare 44, 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “adversus Mathematicos” 2.22); less frequently ὁ βασιλεύς 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.132, 137, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1304b13; β. ὁ μέγας 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.188.)]
III.2 of Alexander and his successors, usually with Article, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (“IG” 22.641,687, 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 293, 340 (_plural_); Σέλευκος 4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 187)]; Ἀντίγονος Alex.III; Πτολεμαῖος [Refs 1st c.BC+ ([prev. author] 244; Ὀσυμανδύας βασιλεὺς βασιλέων 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 1.47)]; title used by Parthian kings, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Pompeius” 38, 2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 37.6, etc.; by Antony, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Antonius” 54)]; of God, [NT (NT.Rev. 17.14,19.16.)]
III.3 of the Roman emperors, [NT+1st c.AD+ (Anthologia Graeca 10.25 (Antip. Thess.); β. Ῥωμαίων “BGU” 588.10 (1st c.AD), etc.,cf. NT.1Tim.2.2, 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Antiquitates Judaicae” 14.15.14; β. αὐτοκράτωρ “IG” 3.13 (from Hadrian), 2nd c.AD: Herodianus Grammaticus 1.6.5; without _Article_, 2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 10.32.19.)]
IV of any great man, πένησί τε καὶ βασιλεῦσιν [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD(?): Pseudo-Phocylidea 113.)]
IV.2 first or most distinguished of any class, Ἡρώδην τὸν β. τῶν λόγων [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Vitae Sophistarum” 2.10.1, compare 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Rh.Pr.” II)]; winner at a game, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 9.106, Scholia 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 146a)]; Stoic sage, μόνος β. [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Herm.” 16)]; βασιλέως ἐγκέφαλος 'morsel fit for a king', [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Clearchus Historicus 5)]; β. σῦκα, name of a choice kind, Philem.Legal. cited in [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 3.76f., compare 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 6.81.)]
V ={συμποσίαρχος}, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.622a, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Sat.” 4.)]
VI wren, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 592b27.)]
VII queen-bee,[Refs ([prev. work] 623b9, “GA” 759a20, etc. (The form βασιλέα)] is scanned ?~X ?~X ¯ in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 1.39)]; codices βασίλεια.)
genitive έως, Epic dialect ῆος, [Refs 5th c.AD+ (5th c.AD: Cypria ῆϝος “Inscription Cyprian dialect” 104,135H.: _accusative_ βασιλέα, _contraction_ -ῆ)] Oracle texts cited in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.220, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 781.24 (Lyric poetry): _nominative_ _plural_ βασιλεῖς,)] Aeolic dialect -ηες[Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica “Papyrus fragments” in E. Diehl, 6.4, “IG” 12(2).6 (Mytil.), -ειες [prev. work] 646a45, +others, _Epic dialect_ -ῆες,)] old Attic dialect -ῆς[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 188, 960 (both Lyric poetry), compare 2nd c.AD: Herodianus Grammaticus Gr. 1.430: _accusative_ _plural_ βασιλέας “IG” 12.115, later βασιλεῖς [prev. work] 2.243, etc.)]:— king, chief, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, etc.)]: frequently with collateral sense of captain or judge, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 202; διοτρεφέες β. 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.445, etc.; θεῖοι 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.691, etc.)]; later, hereditary king, opposed to τύραννος, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1160b3, etc.)]; but also of tyrants, as Hiero, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 1.23)]; of Gelo, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.161)]; of Pisistratus, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Eupolis Comicus 123, cf. Scholia 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 61)]: joined with a substantive, βασιλεὺς ἀνήρ [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.170, etc.; ἀνὴρ β. 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.90)]; ἄναξ β. lord king, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 5, compare 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 17.1: with _genitive_, β. νεῶν 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 114 (_anapaest meter_))]; οἰωνῶν β., of the eagle, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. passage], 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 13.21)]: comparative βασιλεύτερος more kingly, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.160, 392, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 15.533, 7th c.BC: Tyrtaeus Elegiacus 12.7)]: superlative βασιλεύτατος [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.69.)]
b of the gods, Ζεὺς θεῶν β. [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 886, compare 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 7.34, 5th c.BC: Empedocles Poeta Philosophus 128.2, etc. (in this sense 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus uses ἄναξ))]; as cult title of Zeus, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“IG” 7.3073.90 (Lebad.), “SIG” 1014.110 (from Erythrae), etc. (but Ζεὺς β., = Ahuramazda, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 3.3.21, +others, 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Anabasis” 4.20.3))]; ὁ μέγας β., of God, [LXX+1st c.AD+ (LXX.Psa.47(48).2, 1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 2.107)]: superlative βασιλεύτατοι τῶν θεῶν [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Maximus Tyrius Sophista 29.5.)]
2 as a title of rank, prince, β. εἰσὶ καὶ ἄλλοι πολλοὶ ἐν.. Ἰθάκῃ [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.394, compare 8.390)], etc.; of Cyrus, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Oeconomicus” 4.16.)]
2.b descendant of a royal house, especially in Ionia, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ἀθηναίων Πολιτεία” 41.3)]; βασιλέων οἶκοι 'estates of the royal house', name of a district in Chios, Ἀθηνᾶ [Refs (20.168.)]
3 generally, lord, master, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.556, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 6.47.)]
4 metaphorically, πόλεμος πάντων β. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (1st c.AD(?): Heraclitus 53; νόμος ὁ πάντων β. 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “Fragmenta.” 169.)]
II at Athens, the second of the nine Archons, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (Inscriptiones Graecae 12.76, +others, 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 6.38, 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 6.4, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1285b17, “Ath.” 57, etc.; ἡ τοῦ β. στοά 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Euthyphro” 2a.)]
II.2 title of magistrates in other Greek states, as βασιλᾶες at Elis, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (“GDI” 1152, compare “IG” 12(2).6 (Mytil.), etc., 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1322b29.)]
II.3 at Rome, β. τῶν ἱερῶν, = rex sacrorum, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 5.1, compare 2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 54.27.)]
III after the Persian war (without Article), the king of Persia, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.174, +others; ἄναξ Ξέρξης β. 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 5, compare 144, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 61, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.48, “IG” 22.141 (βασιλῆς βασιλέως ὕποχοι μεγάλου,)] of the Satraps, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 24, compare 44, 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “adversus Mathematicos” 2.22); less frequently ὁ βασιλεύς 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.132, 137, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1304b13; β. ὁ μέγας 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.188.)]
III.2 of Alexander and his successors, usually with Article, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (“IG” 22.641,687, 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 293, 340 (_plural_); Σέλευκος 4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 187)]; Ἀντίγονος Alex.III; Πτολεμαῖος [Refs 1st c.BC+ ([prev. author] 244; Ὀσυμανδύας βασιλεὺς βασιλέων 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 1.47)]; title used by Parthian kings, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Pompeius” 38, 2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 37.6, etc.; by Antony, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Antonius” 54)]; of God, [NT (NT.Rev. 17.14,19.16.)]
III.3 of the Roman emperors, [NT+1st c.AD+ (Anthologia Graeca 10.25 (Antip. Thess.); β. Ῥωμαίων “BGU” 588.10 (1st c.AD), etc.,cf. NT.1Tim.2.2, 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Antiquitates Judaicae” 14.15.14; β. αὐτοκράτωρ “IG” 3.13 (from Hadrian), 2nd c.AD: Herodianus Grammaticus 1.6.5; without _Article_, 2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 10.32.19.)]
IV of any great man, πένησί τε καὶ βασιλεῦσιν [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD(?): Pseudo-Phocylidea 113.)]
IV.2 first or most distinguished of any class, Ἡρώδην τὸν β. τῶν λόγων [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Vitae Sophistarum” 2.10.1, compare 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Rh.Pr.” II)]; winner at a game, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 9.106, Scholia 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 146a)]; Stoic sage, μόνος β. [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Herm.” 16)]; βασιλέως ἐγκέφαλος 'morsel fit for a king', [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Clearchus Historicus 5)]; β. σῦκα, name of a choice kind, Philem.Legal. cited in [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 3.76f., compare 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 6.81.)]
V ={συμποσίαρχος}, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.622a, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Sat.” 4.)]
VI wren, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 592b27.)]
VII queen-bee,[Refs ([prev. work] 623b9, “GA” 759a20, etc. (The form βασιλέα)] is scanned ?~X ?~X ¯ in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 1.39)]; codices βασίλεια.)