Bassus is a Latin 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 In biogeography, cosmopolitan distribution is the term for the range of a taxon that extends across all or most of the worl ...

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

Government and military

* Anicius Auchenius Bassus ( 325 – after 385), Prefect of Rome * Anicius Auchenius Bassus (consul 408), Roman consul * Anicius Auchenius Bassus (consul 431), Roman consul * Gaius Julius Quadratus Bassus (70–117), Roman senator and general * Gaius Julius Bassus (c. 45 – aft. 101), Roman senator * Titus Pomponius Bassus, Roman senator * Gaius Pomponius Bassus Terentianus (fl. 2nd century), Roman military officer and senator * Pomponius Bassus (consul 211) (175–221), Roman senator and consul *

Pomponius Bassus (consul 259) Pomponius Bassus ..tus (220 – after 271) was a Roman Senator of Anatolian descent who lived in the Roman Empire. Life Bassus was of Italian Roman and Pontian Greek ancestry, who came from a distinguished senatorial family. Bassus was the son ...

(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 2 ...

(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, 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 (b. c. 245) and wife Pomponia Bassa (born c. 250). His paternal gran ...

(c. 270 – aft. 319), Roman politician

Others

* Aufidius Bassus, 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 ( late 6th/early 7th century), called Scholasticus, one of the geoponici * Saleius Bassus, Roman epic poet * Saint Bassus of Nice (died c. 248–251), bishop of Nice, martyred under Decius

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