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The King is not distinguished by any broad, or impassable boundary from the other chiefs, to each of whom the title Basileus is applicable as well as to himself: his supremacy has been inherited from his ancestors, and passes by inheritance, as a general rule, to his eldest son, having been conferred upon the family as a privilege by the favour of Zeus.
The English Constitution Walter Bagehot 1851
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Sometimes called the King of Herbs by discerning chefs, Basil originates in the Greek word Basileus which means King.
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Sometimes called the King of Herbs by discerning chefs, Basil originates in the Greek word Basileus which means King.
Archive 2007-09-01 2007
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Didn't some of the Bretwaldas actually put "Basileus" on their coins?
Land of Angels, by Fay Sampson. Book review Carla 2007
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Hence the use of Roman regalia, Roman-style coins, even Roman-style titles Aethelstan, grandson of Alfred the Great, calls himself 'Basileus', though that may have been more to do with the contemporary titles in use in Byzantium than a distant memory of the Roman past.
Land of Angels, by Fay Sampson. Book review Carla 2007
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Then the frightened Basileus summoned Guy, the brother of Bohemond, and others and asked: Lords, what shall we do?
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I beseech you to believe that it was not the bill and the bugs at the inn which induced the writer hereof to speak so slightingly of the residence of Basileus.
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And there is an awtere: and before that awtere lyzn Godefray de Boleyne and Bawdewyn, and othere Cristene kynges of Jerusalem; And there nyghe, where our Lord was crucyfied, is this written in Greek, [Greek: Ho Theos Basileus hæmon pro aionon eirgasato aotærian en meso tæs gæs.] that is to seyne, in
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The palace of the Basileus is an enormous edifice of plaster, in a square containing six houses, three donkeys, no roads, no fountains (except in the picture of the inn); backwards it seems to look straight to the mountain — on one side is a beggarly garden — the King goes out to drive
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Ego 芼garus totius Albionis Basileus hoc priuilegium (tanta roboratum authontate) crucis.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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