Caesonius Bassus was a politician of the late Roman Empire. Probably the son of
Lucius Caesonius Ovinius Manlius Rufinianus Bassus, he was consul for 317 alongside
Ovinius Gallicanus. Egyptian sources state they were in office from 8 January but sources from the
western Roman Empire
In modern historiography, the Western Roman Empire was the western provinces of the Roman Empire, collectively, during any period in which they were administered separately from the eastern provinces by a separate, independent imperial court. ...
state that they only entered office on 17 February.
[ Jones, Arnold Hugh Martin, John Robert Martindale, John Morris, "Caesonius Bassus", '']The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire
''Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire'' (abbreviated as ''PLRE'') is a work of Roman prosopography published in a set of three volumes collectively describing many of the people attested to have lived in the Roman Empire from AD 260, the date ...
'', volume 1, Cambridge University Press, 1992, , p. 154.
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4th-century deaths
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