βασιλικός

A. royal, kingly, ποιέεις οὐδαμῶς ‐κά Hdt. 2.173; β. γένος A. Pr. 869; β. [μοναρχία] Pl. Plt. 291e; opp. τυραννικός, Arist. Pol. 1285b3; βασιλικοὶ ἀπέβησαν proved themselves truly kingly, Plb. 8.10.10; βασιλικόν [ἐστι] πράττειν μὲν εὖ, κακῶς δ’ ἀκούειν Arr. Epict. 4.6.20; ἦθος β. X. Oec. 21.10; τὸ β. Id. Cyr. 1.3.18: βασιλική (sc. τέχνη), ἡ, art of ruling, Andronic.Rhod.p.574M.: Comp. ‐ώτερος Herm. ap. Stob. 1.49.45, Jul. Or. 2.54d: Sup. βασιλικώτατος καὶ ἄρχειν ἀξιώτατος X. An. 1.9.1, cf. Isoc. 2.29; ‐ωτάτη χάρις Plu. Alex. 21. Adv. ‐κῶς, παρών as a king, with kingly authority, X. Cyr. 1.4.14; β. ἄρχειν Arist. Pol. 1259b1.

2. of or belonging to a king, οἱ β. the king's friends or officers, Plb. 8.12.10; ἐγκλήματα β. charges of high-treason, Id. 25.3.1; ὀφειλήματα β. debts to the king, ib.3; β. πρόσοδοι PPetr. 3p.56; γραμματεύς (cf. 11.1) Wilcken Chr. 233.2 (ii B.C.), etc.; γεωργοί PTeb. 5.200 (ii B.C.), etc.; ὁδὸς β. the king's highway, LXX Nu. 20.17, PPetr. 3p.65 (iii B.C.); μὴ εἶναι β. ἀτραπὸν ἐπὶ γεωμετρίαν no royal road, Euc. ap.Procl. in Euc. p.68F.; β. νόμος OGI 483.1, Ep.Jac. 2.8; αἱ β. βίβλοι the books of Kings, Ph. 1.427.

3. choice (cf. βασίλειος 3), μίνδαξ Amphis 27.

4. κάρυα β. walnuts, Dsc. 1.125; καρύαι PSI 4.428.65 (iii B.C.).

b. β. κύμινον, = ἄμι, Dsc. 3.62.

II. as Subst.,

1. βασιλικός (sc. γραμματεύς), ὁ, official in Egyptian νομοί, POxy. 1219.15 (iii A. D.).

b. (sc. οἶκος) basilica, CIG 2782.25 (Aphrodisias).

c. (sc. ὄρνις) = ἀκαλανθίς, Sch.Ar. Pax 1078.

d. (sc. ἀστήρ) = βασιλίσκος v, Cat.Cod.Astr. 7.201.23.

2. βασιλικὴ στοά hall divided into aisles by columns, IG 12(3).326.18 (Thera), Str. 5.3.8 (pl.); β. alone, OGI 511.15 (Aezani), Lat. basilica, Vitr. 5.1.4,6.3.9, cf. Plu. Publ. 15, Cat.Mi. 5, App. BC 2.26.

3. βασιλικόν (sc. ταμιεῖον), τό, treasury, εἰς τὸ β. ἀπομετρῆσαι, τελεῖν, PSI 4.344.17 (iii B.C.), D.S. 2.40, etc.; ὀφείλειν PRev.Laws 5.1, al.; royal bank, OGI 90.29 (Rosetta), PRein. 13.19, al., BGU 830.18 (i A. D.).

b. (sc. δῶμα) palace, D.C. 60.4.

c. (sc. πρόσταγμα) royal decree, LXX Es. 1.19.

d. (sc. φάρμακον) name for various remedies, = τετραφάρμακον, Gal. 12.601; of other compounds, ibid.; a plaster, Id. 13.184; an eyesalve, Id. 12.782 (also ‐κός,ὁ, a bandage, Id. 18(1).777).

e. (sc. φυτόν) basil, Ocimum basilicum, Suid.

f. βασιλικά,τά, communications received from kings, SIG 333.23 (Samos), 426.26 (Teos); also, interests or revenues of the crown, PRev.Laws 15.4 (iii B. C.), PTeb. 5.256 (ii B. C.), LXX 1 Ma. 10.43; prerogatives, ib.15.8.