βασιλεῦ (basileu)

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

Found 359 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 1.8.105: … ς. Εὗρε δʼ εἰς τὸν βίον ἄγκυράν τε καὶ κεραμικὸν τροχόν, ὥς τινες. Καὶ ἐπέστειλεν ὧδε· Ἀνάχαρσις Κροίσῳ “Ἐγώ, βασιλεῦ Λυδῶν, ἀφῖγμαι εἰς τὴν τῶν Ἑλλήνων, διδαθησόμενος ἤθη τὰ τούτων καὶ ἐπιτηδεύματα. χρυσοῦ δʼ οὐδὲ δέομαι, ἀλλʼ …

Euripides, Ion 1087: ἵνʼ ἐλπίζει βασιλεύ-

John of Damascus, Saint, Vita Barlaam et Joasaph 4.24: κατενύγη τὴν ψυχήν, καὶ δάκρυσι συγκεχυμένος ἁπλοϊκῶς ἀπεκρίνατο· Βασιλεῦ, εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας ζῆθι· βουλὴν γὰρ ἀγαθὴν καὶ σωτήριον ἐβουλεύσω, ὅτι, κἂν δυσεύρετος ἡ τῶν οὐρανῶν βασιλεία, …

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.