Crossword clues for basileus
basileus
The Collaborative International Dictionary
basileus \basileus\ n. a ruler of the eastern Roman Empire.
Wiktionary
n. A title of the Byzantine emperor.
WordNet
n. a ruler of the eastern Roman Empire
[also: basileis (pl)]
Wikipedia
Basileus is a Greek term and title that has signified various types of monarchs in history. In the English-speaking world it is perhaps most widely understood to mean "King" or "Emperor". The best known use of the title is by the Byzantine emperors, but the title also has a longer history of use by sovereigns and other persons of authority in ancient Greece, as well as for the kings of modern Greece.
The feminine forms are Basilissa (Βασίλισσα), Basileia (Βασίλεια), Basilis (Βασιλίς), or the archaic Basilinna (Βασιλίννα), meaning "Queen" or "Empress".
Usage examples of "basileus".
Choniates, former court orator, supreme judge of the empire, judge of the Veil, logthete of secrets oras the Latins would have saidchancellor of the basileus of Byzantium as well as historian of many Comneni and Angelus emperors, regarded with curiosity the man facing him.
Baudolino had told him that the two of them had met at Gallipoli, in the days of the emperor Frederick, but if Baudolino had been there, he had been surrounded by many other ministerials, whereas Niketas, who was negotiating in the name of the basileus, had been far more visible.
In your country someone gouges out the eyes of the current basileus, and he becomes basileus himself, everybody agrees, and even the patriarch of Constantinople does what the new basileus tells him, otherwise the basileus gouges out his eyes too.
Constantinople, as ambassador from your king Otto, a bishop of yours, one Liudprand, who was the guest of our basileus Nicephorus.
Magi, so he must have received them as a gift from the basileus of the empire of the Orient.
Christian sovereigns, including the basileus of the Constantinople schismatics, would seem hovels, and as priest he had to have a temple compared to which the churches of the pope were shacks.
That letter was to circulate among the papal court, the courts of France and England, reach the basileus of Byzantium, and therefore it had to be formed as important documents are prepared throughout the Christian world.
For ten years Manuel had been proposing to the pope the reunification of the two churches: he would recognize the religious primacy of the pope and the pope would recognize the basileus of Byzantium as the sole, authentic Roman emperor, of both East and West.
In our empire the men of the Church work for their basileus, and not against him.
I could say that if the basileus Manuel ventured into the lands of the sultan of Iconium, it was precisely to open the way towards the realm of the Lord of the Indias.
And now, before our basileus can mount a new expedition, it will take some time.
Then he went back to that shit of a basileus of his, told him that Frederick was about to reveal himself as friend and heir of Prester John, and they wrote another letter addressed to Manuel, sending it off before ours!
If I had been counsellor to the basileus, I would have advised him not to recur to such childish machinations.
Even if we were to learn that he was living, covered with prebends, in the imperial palace of his basileus, how to go and unmask him there, amid the entire Byzantine army?
Even if I had not yet visited your country, I knew enough about it to think that, with a new basileus, all the old advisers would be done away with.