Basilis

• a Greek geographer, Plin. 6, 29, 35, § 183.

(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. 390b.) He also seems to have written on Aethiopia, as he gave an account of the size of the country. (Plin. Nat. 6.29. s. 35.) He is mentioned by Agatharchides among the writers on the east. (Ap. Phot. p. 454b. 34, ed. Bekker, who calls him Basileus.)

BA´SILIS (Βάσιλις, Βασιλίς: Eth. Βασιλίτης), a town of Arcadia in the district Parrhasia, on the Alpheius, said to have been founded by the Arcadian king Cypselus, and containing a temple of the Eleusinian Demeter. It is identified by Kiepert in his map with the Cypsela mentioned by Thucydides (Thuc. 5.33). There are a few remains of Basilis near Kyparíssia. (Paus. 8.30.5; Athen. 609e.; Steph. B. s. v.; Leake, Morea, vol. 2. p. 293; Ross, Reisen im Peloponnes, vol. 1. p. 89.) [CYPSELA]

• Paus. 8.29.5