[1] The headword is aorist passive participle of ste/llw, masculine or neuter genitive singular; neuter if it is extracted from the quotation given.
[2] Quotation (transmitted, in Adler's view, via the Excerpta Constantini Porphyrogeniti) unidentifiable. Adler notes that Bernhardy regarded oi)kei=a as corrupt; and she herself took the same view of the transmitted "of oxen" (bow=n [ms V] or bw=n) at the end of the passage, departing from her normal conservatism in textual matters to print instead her own emendation basile/wn. (It is translated here as 'kings', though 'emperors' may be more appropriate if the context is a Roman imperial one.)