Bible Lexicons

βασιλικός is exceedingly common, but we may note P Petr III. 31.5 (B.C. 240) π ̣ο ̣ρευομένου ἐπὶ τῆς βασιλικῆς ὁδοῦ as coeval with the almost identical phrase of the LXX in Numbers 20:17. This phrase at a later time was used to render via regalis, a Roman road built by the Emperor : see Ramsay CRE, p. 32 ff., where a Latin inscr. from Pisidia brings the original back to the time of Augustus. The adj. is applied to the revenue in P Petr III. 26.15 ὁ πράκτωρ ὁ ἐπὶ τῶν βασιλικ (ῶ )ν προσόδων τεταγμένος , ";the officer appointed to collect the royal revenues";; Chrest. I. 198.19 (B.C. 240) τῶι ἐμ Βουβάστωι βασιλικῶι θησαυρῶι . In a papyrus of the latter half of ii/A.D., edited by Comparetti in Mél. Nicole, p. 57 ff., we find iv. 19 βασιλικῷ Ὀξυρυγχείτου . The editor remarks (p. 67) that in the absence of the Strategus his functions were fulfilled by his deputy, the βασιλικὸς γραμματεύς . So P Oxy IX. 1219.15 (iii/A.D.) Ἀπ [ί ]ωνα τὸν τοῦ Προσωπείτου βασιλικόν , ";A. the basilicogrammateus of the Prosopite nome"; (Ed.) : the addressee, another Apion, held the same office in the Letopolite nome—cf. l..20 βασιλικ (ῷ ) γρ (αμματεῖ ). If we might apply the Egyptian analogy, we might assume that γραμματεύς should similarly be supplied in John 4:46; but the τις raises a difficulty. For the full title cf. Chrest. I. 224 (iii/B.C.), where a man registers his house πρὸς Καλλικράτην τὸν οἰκονόμον καὶ Ἰμούθην τὸν βασιλικὸν γραμματέα , etc. In Chrest. I. 308, an ostracon of ii/B.C., a certain Psenchousis, apparently a clerk in the office of the royal οἰκονόμος , pays 2000 dr. into the bank ἀπὸ τιμῆς ὀθονίων βασιλικῶν τοῦ λ ̄α ̄ (ἔτους ) : linen was a royal monopoly. There was in the imperial period a β . τραπεζίτης , as at Heptacomia in P Giss I. 59iii. 18 (A.D. 118–9). We need not illustrate such a word more fully, but we might quote Syll 846.3 f. (B.C. 197–6) ἐπὶ τοῖσδε ἀπέδοτο Δαμέας ὁ παρὰ τοῦ βασιλέως Ἀττάλου ὁ ἐπὶ τῶν ἔργων τῶν βασιλικῶν Ἀρτεμιδώραν τὰν βασιλικὰν παιδίσκαν τῶι Ἀπόλλωνι τῶι Πυθίωι for freedom. On νόμος βασιλικός in James 2:8 Deissmann refers to a heading probably added in the time of Trajan to an inscription at Pergamum containing the law of astynomy—τὸν βασιλικὸν νόμον ἐκ τῶν ἰδίων ἀνέθηκεν , ";he set up the royal law out of his own means."; This designation of the law as ";royal,"; because made by one of the kings of Pergamum, points, he thinks, to a similar reference in the first place to the origin of the law in the James passage (see LAE, p. 367, n..8). Grimm notes that the phrase is applied to τὸ ὀρθόν in Plato.

 

 

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