proper noun
Băsĭlis
Meaning
- a Greek geographer
Băsĭlis, is, m.,
I. a Greek geographer, Plin. 6, 29, 35, § 183.
In the Academy Smith's classical dictionaries
GeographyBasilisBasilis (Βάσιλις, Βασιλίς: Eth. Βασιλίτης), a town of Arcadia in the district Parrhasia, on the Alpheius, said to have been founded by the Arcadian ki…Biography & mythologyBasilisBasilis (Βάσιλις), a Greek writer of uncertain date, the author of a work on India (Ἰνδικά), of which the second book is quoted by Athenaeus. (ix. p. …