Interesting Fact No. 18: The Basilisk

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 186037

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Goddlefrood" <gav_fiji at ...> wrote:
>
> Did you know that translating Basilisk from Greek to Latin gives 
> you Regulus? According to the Aberdeen bestiary it does, for more 
> see:
> 
> http://www.abdn.ac.uk/bestiary/translat/66r.hti & 
> http://www.abdn.ac.uk/bestiary/translat/66v.hti
> 
> Could this signify anything or is it just a bizarre coincidence?
> 
> Goddlefrood

Geoff:
Well, their basilisk is only six inches long....

Perhaps Regulus was a shorty?
:-)