Ammianus Marcellinus, Rerum Gestarum, Book XXVIII, chapter 1, section 41

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[41] After this, Maximinus received a successor, ¹ and was summoned to the emperor's court, as Leo ² had been before him; and there, being promoted to the praetorian prefecture, he was no whit milder, but like the basilisk, ³ was harmful even from a distance.

1 Ursicinus; see § 44, below.

2 Cf. 1, 12, above.

3 Cf. xxii. 15, 27, and Spenser, F.Q. iv. 8, 39:

Like as the Basiliske, of serpents seede,
From powrefull eyes close venim doth convey
Into the lookers hart, and killeth farre away.

Ammianus Marcellinus. With An English Translation. John C. Rolfe, Ph.D., Litt.D. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1935-1940.

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