 In 471 and 472 , Basiliscus helped Leo I to get rid of the Germanic influence in his court , helping in the murder of the Alan Magister militum Aspar . The death of Aspar caused a revolt in Thrace , led by the Thracian Ostrogoth Theodoric Strabo , and Basiliscus was dispatched to suppress the revolt , something he successfully did with the aid of his nephew Armatus . In 474 he received the rank of caput senatus , " first among the senators " . 
