Basileus was a favourite title of the English kings before the Conquest.
Aristophanes informs us[181] that it maintained this character; for theBasileus awarded the prize at the Choes.
The Basileusand the Epimeletae together directed the procession; Page 78 but the basileus alone controlled the [dramatic] contest.
Basileus had the Bucoleum, near the Prytaneum, and that the meeting and marriage of the Basileus' wife with Dionysus still took place there in his time.
Her help had been important to Michael, and he had rewarded her after he reconquered the Polis and made himself its Basileus by keeping her as his favorite for a time.
The basileus of Trebizond--the emperor--has the biggest library, with the monks of Mount Gelesias not far behind.
She had painted it herself a few years before, copying another, larger icon that belonged to the Basileus Michael.
The change was clearly effected by the devolution of the military and civil powers of the king to the polemarch and the archon, while the archon basileus (or king) retained control of state religion.
A helmeted head, with the inscription, [Transliterated from the Greek, Basileus soteros Menandrou].
A square copper coin of Eucratides: [Transliterated from the Greek, Basileus megal] is only decypherable.
A Bactrian coin: legend on the obverse, [Transliterated from the Greek lettering, Basileus ermaion sot].
In Constantinople only the Basileus and his consort were permitted to wear purple.
Daoud could serve the Basileus brilliantly, as a strategos, a general, or as a mediator between Byzantines and Saracens.
Yes, and she had helped the Basileus Michael to drive them out, and she would kill this one too.
What says William the Count of the Foreigners, to Harold, King of the Angles, and Basileus of Britain?
So there he stood with his calm brow, facing all, Monarch of England, and Basileus of Britain.
The title of Basileus was retained by our kings so late as the time of John, who styled himself "Totius Insulae Britannicae Basileus.
And according to their numbers and their sentiments, easily known and boldly murmured, often and often must that august court of basileus and prelate, vassal-king and mighty earl, have shaped the council and adjudged the doom.
Some seated below, and some standing beside, the throne, were the officers of the Basileus [84] of Britain.
Yon noble earls, Siward and Leofric, came to that standard, as (knowing not then my cause) was their duty to the Basileus of Britain.
The relations between the Basileus and the Church are strained to breaking; and the condition is not sanable while the quarrel between the Patriarch and Scholarius waxes hotter.
This rare and anointed body was the Church going in solemnity to assist the Basileus in a high ceremony.
They came home, theBasileus and his seven hundred followers.
Landing at Venice, the Basileus was escorted to Ferrara, where Eugenius received him with suitable pomp.
The rules governing it were the excerpt of an idea that the Basileus or Emperor was the incarnation of power and majesty.
The basileus had also sacerdotal and judiciary functions beside those of a military leader.
Hence the facts are in favor of the opinion that among Greeks the basileus was either elected by the people or at last was subject to the indorsement of their appointed organs, the council or agora, as was the case with the Roman king (rex).
The translation of basileus by king is etymologically quite correct, because king (Kuning) is derived from Kuni, Kuenne, and signifies chief of a gens.
The primordial democracy was still in full force, and by this standard the influence and position of the council and of the basileus must be judged.
Hence the basileus had no governmental power in a modern sense.
And Aristotle says that the basileia of heroic times was a leadership of free men and that the basileus was a military chief, a judge and a high priest.
That in Greece, under paternal law, the office of basileuswas generally transmitted to the son or one of the sons, indicates only that the probability of succession by public election was in favor of the sons.
Marx makes the following comment: "The European scientists, mostly born servants of princes, represent the basileus as a monarch in the modern sense.
The priestly and judicial functions attached to the office of basileus tend to explain the dignity it acquired in the legendary and heroic periods.
Whether the higher offices of anax, koiranos, and basileus were transmitted by hereditary right from father to son, or were elective or confirmative by a larger constituency, is also a question.
The basileus was their general, holding the highest, the most influential and the most important office known to their social system.
The military and priestly functions of the basileus are tolerably well understood, the judicial imperfectly, and the civil functions cannot properly be said to have existed.
The form of government under which the rex and basileus appeared is identified with gentile institutions and disappeared after gentile society was overthrown.
The basileus belongs to the traditionary period, when the powers of government were more or less undefined; but the council of chiefs existed in the centre of the system, and also the gentes, phratries and tribes in full vitality.
The powers of such an office under gentile institutions would gradually become defined by the usage of experience, but with a constant tendency in the basileus to assume new ones dangerous to society.
The office of basileus in the Grecian tribes has attracted far more attention than either the council or the agora.
Sparta retained the office of basileus in the period of civilization.
With the office of basileustransmitted in the manner last named, the government would remain in the hands of the people.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "basileus" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
