basileus has definitions from the field of Roman antiquity
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[ noun ] (Roman antiquity) a ruler of the eastern Roman Empire

Used in print

(Chester G. Starr, The Origins of Greek Civili...)

The dominant pottery of the century was Geometric ; political organization revolved_about the basileis ; trade was just beginning to expand ; the gods who protected the Greek countryside were only now putting_on their sharply anthropomorphic dress .

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