Basilius
Americannoun
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Basilius, the tyrannical king, is played by a scruffy, cigar-chomping Lea DeLaria, who tramps around the stage with the bent strut of Groucho Marx.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 16, 2021
Hobson plays King Basilius like a boy trying to overcompensate for his self-consciousness at a middle-school dance, flip-flopping between peacock machismo and hand-wringing insecurity.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 12, 2019
King Basilius, meanwhile, asks the oracle, “Art thou man or woman?”
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 27, 2018
Despite his pretense of nonbelief, Basilius is disturbed by the oracle’s dark words and decides to outrun misfortune by getting out of Arcadia.
From New York Times ● Aug. 17, 2015
The last consul born in a private station was Basilius in the East in A.D.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 2 "Constantine Pavlovich" to "Convention" by Various
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