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He declared himself openly against the Catholic faith in favour of the Eutycheans. But Basiliscus was, if possible, viler than Zeno, and after twenty months Zeno was brought back. The usurper's short rule lasted from October, 475, to June, 477; exactly, therefore, at the time when Odoacer put an end to the western empire.
And he did this, thinking, as actually did happen, that a favouring wind would rise for him during this time. And Basiliscus, either as doing a favour to Aspar in accordance with what he had promised, or selling the moment of opportunity for money, or perhaps thinking it the better course, did as he was requested and remained quietly in the camp, awaiting the moment favourable to the enemy.
The whole structure which lasted through this earthquake of nations had its cohesion in him a fact seen even more clearly in the time of the third Valentinian than in that of the conquering Constantine. But looking to that East, which dates from the Encyclikon of a Basiliscus and the Henotikon of a Zeno, here the Pope appears as the sole check to a despotic power.
So they went on for years, till the miserable religious squabble fell out you may read it in Gibbon which ended in the Emperor Zeno, a low-born and cunning man, suspected of the murder of his own son by the princess Ariadne, being driven out of Constantinople by Basiliscus. We need not enter into such matters, except as far as they bear on the history of Dietrich the Amal.
He is like that damnable monster Basiliscus, which defiles yea, poisons! by the sight." All which was hardly claratory to the boy's mind. Presently Montroymont came home, and called up the stairs to Francie. But this day Francie's heart was not in the fencing. "Sir," says he, suddenly lowering his point, "will ye tell me a thing if I was to ask it?" "Ask away," says the father.
But Anthemius lasted no longer than the noble Majorian or the ignoble Severus. East and West had united their strength in a great expedition to put down the incessant Vandal piracies, which made all the coasts of the Mediterranean insecure. It failed through the treachery of the eastern commander Basiliscus, to whose evil deeds we shall have hereafter to recur.
He is like that damnable monster Basiliscus, which defiles yea, poisons! by the sight. All which was hardly claratory to the boy's mind. Presently Montroymont came home, and called up the stairs to Francie. But this day Francie's heart was not in the fencing. 'Sir, says he, suddenly lowering his point, 'will ye tell me a thing if I was to ask it? 'Ask away, says the father.
The report of an African war was grateful only to the vain and idle populace of Constantinople, whose poverty exempted them from tribute, and whose cowardice was seldom exposed to military service. But the wiser citizens, who judged of the future by the past, revolved in their memory the immense loss, both of men and money, which the empire had sustained in the expedition of Basiliscus.
Basiliscus' party had already broken up; Basiliscus and his family had taken refuge in a church, from whence Zeno enticed him, on the promise of shedding no blood, which he did not: but instead, put him, his wife and children, in a dry cistern, walled it up and left them. Dietrich the Amal rose into power and great glory, and became 'son-in- arms' to the Emperor.
He had charmed at once the old emperor Leo I.; but Zeno, whose influence first made him bishop, afterwards followed all his teaching. He had also gained a renown for orthodoxy by refusing the attempt of Basiliscus to make the imperial will a rule of Church doctrine.
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