From Aeliani de natura animalium libri XVII, III.xxxi (see also VI.xxii). In the translation after Gesner's, from the Jacobs edition of 1832 (p. 44; Greek, p. 65):
XXXI. Gallinaceus leoni terrorem incutit; eandemque avem timet basiliscus, ut fertur, atque ad conspectum ejus contremiscit, et canentem audiens [convulsione adfectus] moritur. Quam rem non ignorantes, qui per Africam [ejusdam animalis altricem] iter faciunt, metu basilisci gallum itineris comitem et socium sibi adjungunt, qui eos a tanto malo liberet.
'Alektruo/na fobei=ta le/wn: kai\ basili/skoj de\ to\n au)to\n o1rnin, w#j fasin, o)r)r(wdei=, kai\ katidw\n tre/mei, kai\ a)kou/wn a|!dontoj spa=tai/ te kai\ a)poqnh/skei. Tau=ta a!ra kai\ oi( th\n Libu/hn o(diporou=ntej, th\n tw=n toiou/twn trofo/n, de/ei tou= proeirhme/nou basili/skou, ei]ta me/ntoi sune/mporon kai\ xoinwno\n th=j o(dou= to\n a)lektruo/na e)pa/gontai, o#j per ou]n to\ thlikou=ton kako\n a)palla/cei au)toi=j.
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