βασιλεῖ (basilei)

βασιλεῖ is an Ancient Greek form of βασιλεύς, meaning “king, chieftain”. It is the dative singular masculine noun.

Found 1,408 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.128.5: Βυζάντιον γὰρ ἑλὼν τῇ προτέρᾳ παρουσίᾳ μετὰ τὴν ἐκ Κύπρου ἀναχώρησιν (εἶχον δὲ Μῆδοι αὐτὸ καὶ βασιλέως προσήκοντές τινες καὶ ξυγγενεῖς οἳ ἑάλωσαν ἐν αὐτῷ) τότε τούτους οὓς ἔλαβεν ἀποπέμπει βασιλεῖ κρύφα τῶν ἄλλων ξυμμάχων, τῷ δὲ λόγῳ ἀπέδρασαν αὐτόν.

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 7.1.8: “Βασιλεῖ Ἀντιγόνῳ Ζήνων χαίρειν. “Ἀποδέχομαί σου τὴν φιλομάθειαν καθόσον τῆς ἀληθινῆς καὶ εἰς ὄνησιν τεινούσης, ἀλλʼ ο …

Euripides, The Trojan Women 966: βασίλειʼ, ἄμυνον σοῖς τέκνοισι καὶ πάτρᾳ

All forms of βασιλεύς (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.