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{{ETG article
|term=Basileus
|person=No
|origin={{tip|Gr}}
|description=The Archon or Chief who had the outer super‐vision during the Eleusinian Mysteries. While the latter was an initiated layman, and magistrate at Athens, the ''Basileus ''of the ''inner ''Temple was of the staff of the great Hierophant, and as such was one of the chief ''Mystæ ''and belonged to the inner mysteries {{etg-source|TG}}.
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|term=Basileus
|person=No
|origin={{tip|Gr}}
|description=The Archon or Chief who had the outer super‐vision during the Eleusinian Mysteries. While the latter was an initiated layman, and magistrate at Athens, the ''Basileus ''of the ''inner ''Temple was of the staff of the great Hierophant, and as such was one of the chief ''Mystæ ''and belonged to the inner mysteries {{etg-source|TG}}.
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