βασιλίσκος

A. princelet, chieftain, Plb. 3.44.5, OGI 200.18 (Axum); also, = βασιλείδιον, Ath. 13.566a.

II. kind of serpent, basilisk, perh. Egyptian cobra, Hp. Ep. 19 (Hermes 53.65), LXX Ps. 90(91).13,al., Hld. 3.8, Artem. 4.56, Horap. 1.1, Democr. [300], Plin. 8.78.

III. wren, Aesop. ap. Plu. 2.806e, Ruf Fr. 117, Artem. 4.56; gold-crest, Philagr. ap. Aët,11.11.

IV. sea-fish, Opp. H. 1.129, Marc.Sid. 26.

V. the star a Leonis, Regulus, Gem. 3.5, Heph.Astr. 2.18, etc.

VI. kind of shoe, Poll. 7.85.