βασίλειον

A. kingly dwelling, palace, X. Cyr. 2.4.3, etc.; more common in pl., Hdt. 1.30, 178, Arist. Oec. 1352a11, etc.

b. seat of empire, capital, Plb. 3.15.3, D.S. 19.18, Str. 1.2.25.

2. royal treasury, Hdt. 2.149: pl., Isoc. 3.31.

II. tiara, diadem, LXX 2 Ki. 1.10, Roussel Cultes Égyptiens 233 (Delos, ii B.C.), OGI 90.45 (Rosetta), Plu. 2.358d, Porph. ap. Eus. PE 3.11, Horap. 1.15: metaph., τὸ β. τῆς εὐπρεπείας diadem of beauty, LXX Wi. 5.16.

III. = ἅλιμος, Ps.-Dsc. 1.91; = λευκόϊον, Id. 3.123.

IV. Βασίλεια,τά, festival of Zeus Basileus, in Boeotia, IG 7.552, Sch.Pi. O. 7.153, IG 12(1).78; at Olbia, IPE 1.105.