134. Sidonius Apollinaris (l. i. Epist. 9, p. 22, edit.
Sirmond) has compared the two leading senators of his time
(A.D. 468), Gennadius Avienus and Caecina Basilius. To the
former he assigns the specious, to the latter the solid,
virtues of public and private life. A Basilius junior,
possibly his son, was consul in the year 480.