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βασιλικούς (basilikous)

βασιλικούς is an Ancient Greek form of βασιλικός, meaning “royal, kingly”. It is the accusative plural masculine adjective.

Found 43 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Medea 547: ἃ δ’ ἐς γάμους μοι βασιλικοὺς ὠνείδισας,

Plutarch, Comparison of Lysander and Sulla 2.2: … τὸν ἄρχοντα τίς ἐστιν, ἀλλὰ ἐκ τίνος, αὐτοί γέ τοι Σπαρτιᾶται βασιλεύοντας ἐνίους ἀφείλοντο τὴν ἀρχήν, ὡς οὐ βασιλικούς, ἀλλὰ φαύλους καὶ τὸ μηδὲν ὄντας, εἰ δὲ κακία καὶ μετά γένους ἄτιμον, οὐδʼ ἀρετὴ διʼ εὐγένειαν, ἀλλʼ ἀφʼ ἑαυτ …

All forms of βασιλικός (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.