Bassus is a

Latin Latin ( or ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic languages, Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally spoken by the Latins (Italic tribe), Latins in Latium (now known as Lazio), the lower Tiber area aroun ...

adjective meaning "thick, fat, stumpy, short" and may refer to: * ''

Bassus (wasp) ''Bassus'' is a genus of insects belonging to the family Braconidae. The genus has almost cosmopolitan distribution. Species * ''Bassus abdominalis'' Muesebeck, 1927 * ''Bassus aciculatus'' (Ashmead, 1889) * ''Bassus acrobasidis'' * ''Bassus ...

'', a genus of braconid wasps It was also the name of:

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* Anicius Auchenius Bassus ( 325 – after 385), Prefect of Rome *

Anicius Auchenius Bassus (consul 408) Anicius Auchenius Bassus (''fl''. 408) was a politician of the Roman Empire. In 408, he was appointed consul. According to B. L. Twyman, he represents the "mainline" of the ''gens'' Anicia. Bassus was probably the son of the Anicius Auchenius B ...

, Roman consul *

Anicius Auchenius Bassus (consul 431) Flavius Anicius Auchenius Bassus (''fl''. 425–435) was a high official of the Western Roman Empire. He was appointed as consul by the Western court with Antiochus Chuzon as a colleague. In 435 he held for the second time the office of praetorian ...

, Roman consul *

Gaius Julius Quadratus Bassus Gaius Julius Quadratus Bassus (70–117) was a Roman senator and general. He rose from provincial aristocratic origins to occupy the highest offices of Rome. He served as a legionary commander and as imperial governor of Judea, Cappadocia, Galat ...

(70–117), Roman senator and general *

Gaius Julius Bassus Gaius Julius Bassus ( 45 – aft. 101 AD) was a Roman senator. He was quaestor, and later governor of Bithynia and Pontus for the term 100/101; two inhabitants of that public province indicted him in the Senate for corruption, and Pliny the Younger ...

(c. 45 – aft. 101), Roman senator *

Titus Pomponius Bassus Titus Pomponius Bassus was a Roman Empire, Roman Roman senate, senator who held a number of imperial appointments. He was Roman consul, suffect consul in the ''nundinium'' of September–December 94 as the colleague of Lucius Silius Decianus. He ...

, Roman senator *

Gaius Pomponius Bassus Terentianus Gaius Pomponius Bassus Terentianus (fl. 2nd century AD) was a Roman Empire, Roman military officer and Senate of the Roman Empire, senator. Biography Pomponius Bassus Terentianus was a member of the second century ''Pomponia gens, gens Pomponia'' ...

(fl. 2nd century), Roman military officer and senator *

Pomponius Bassus (consul 211) Pomponius Bassus (175 – 221) was a Roman senator active during the reigns of Septimius Severus, Caracalla, and Geta. Life The father of Pomponius Bassus was probably Gaius Pomponius Bassus Terentianus (c. 155-after 193), who served as a suffe ...

(175–221), Roman senator and consul * Pomponius Bassus (consul 259) (220 – after 271), Roman senator and consul * Junius Bassus ( 318–331), Roman praetorian prefect and consul in 331 *

Junius Bassus Theotecnius Junius Bassus Theotecnius (June 317 – 25 August 359) was an ancient Roman politician. The son of the praetorian prefect Junius Annius Bassus, he was ''vir clarissimus'' and ''vicarius'' of Rome as well as ''praefectus urbi'' from 25 March to ...

(317–359), Roman politician * Lucilius Bassus, Roman legatus appointed by Emperor Vespasian * Lucius Caesonius Ovinius Rufinus Manilius Bassus (or Rufinius) (c. 227 – c. 300), Roman consul in 260 and 284 * Caesonius Bassus, Roman consul in 317 *

Lucius Valerius Septimius Bassus Lucius Valerius Septimius Bassus (c. 328 - aft. 379 or 383) was a Roman politician. Life He was the son of Valerius Maximus (praetorian prefect), Valerius Maximus and first wife Septimia Bassa. He was ''praefectus urbi'' Romae under the emperors ...

(c. 328 – after 379), Praefectus Urbi Romae *

Publius Ventidius Bassus Publius Ventidius ( 89–38 BC) was a Roman general and one of Julius Caesar's protégés. He won key victories against the Parthians which resulted in the deaths of key leaders – victories which redeemed the losses of Crassus and paved the ...

, Roman general *

Septimius Bassus Septimius Bassus (fl. 317–319) was a Roman politician, and a member of the Septimia gens. Life Bassus was born in a senatorial family, the son of Lucius Septimius Severus (born c. 245) and wife Pomponia Bassa (born c. 250). His paternal gra ...

(c. 270 – aft. 319), Roman politician

Others

Aufidius Bassus Aufidius Bassus was a renowned Roman historian and orator who lived in the reign of Augustus and Tiberius. Bassus was a man much admired in Rome for his eloquence. He drew up an account of the Roman wars in Germany. Uncertainty in his health perh ...

, Roman historian *

Caesius Bassus Gaius Caesius Bassus (d. AD 79) was a Roman lyric poet who lived in the reign of Nero. He was the intimate friend of Persius, who dedicated his sixth satire to him, and whose works he edited (''Schol. on Persius'', vi. I). He had a great reputa ...

(died 79), Roman lyric poet *

Cassianus Bassus Cassianus Bassus, called Scholasticus (lawyer), was one of the , a group of Greek and Latin writers on agricultural subjects. He lived at the end of the 6th or the beginning of the 7th century. Bassus compiled from earlier writers a collection of ...

( late 6th/early 7th century), called Scholasticus, one of the geoponici * Saleius Bassus, Roman epic poet * Saint

Bassus of Nice Saint Bassus of Nice (182 ca. – 250 AD) is a 3rd-century Roman Catholic saint and martyr, traditionally the earliest named bishop of Nice. He was active on the Côte d'Azur, and was martyred for his faith under the Emperor Decius by being bu ...

(died c. 248–251), bishop of Nice, martyred under Decius

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