Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae, John C. Rolfe (Translator), 28.1.41

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[41] After this, Maximinus received a successor,¹ and was summoned to the emperor’s court, as Leo² 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.

Res Gestae. Ammianus Marcellinus. John C. Rolfe (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1935-1940.

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[41] Post haec praegresso Leone, acceptoque successore, ad principis comitatum Maximinus accitus, auctusque praefectura praetoriana, nihilo lenior fuit, etiam longius nocens, ut basilisci serpentes.

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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 Res Gestae 28.1.41

John C. Rolfe (Translator)

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