βασιλείαν (basileian)

βασιλείαν is an Ancient Greek form of βασιλεία, meaning “kingdom, kingship”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun.

Found 1,096 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.9.2: … ειδῶν καὶ ἅμα δυνατὸν δοκοῦντα εἶναι καὶ τὸ πλῆθος τεθεραπευκότα τῶν Μυκηναίων τε καὶ ὅσων Εὐρυσθεὺς ἦρχε τὴν βασιλείαν Ἀτρέα παραλαβεῖν, καὶ τῶν Περσειδῶν τοὺς Πελοπίδας μείζους καταστῆναι.

Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis 599: τὴν βασίλειαν δεξώμεθʼ ὄχων

Aristophanes, Birds 1536: καὶ τὴν Βασίλειάν σοι γυναῖκʼ ἔχειν διδῷ.

All forms of βασιλεία (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.