BASILEUS • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Basileus

... Hubert Barons, war of the Basileus Batu Belgium Benefices Bern Bonaparte, N. Bonapartism Boroughs, special privileges of Boston, growth of its Common Boundaries ...

— American Political Ideas Viewed From The Standpoint Of Universal History • John Fiske

... the contagion of ancient sin or underworld anger. For nothing is so dangerous as the presence of what I may call raw ghosts. The Anthesteria contained, like other feasts of the kind, a hieros gamos, or Holy Marriage, between the wife of the Basileus or Sacred King, and the imaginary god.[18:1] Whatever reality there ever was in the ceremony has apparently by classical times faded away. But the place where the god received his bride is curious. It was called the Boukolion, or Bull's ...

— Five Stages of Greek Religion • Gilbert Murray