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 Ovinius Gallicanus (''floruit'' 293317) was a senator of the Roman Empire, probably the first Christian Roman consul.
In 293 or 300 he was the ''curator'' of Teanum Sidicinum. On 4 August 316 he is attested as ''praefectus urbi'' of Rome, as succes ...
. Egyptian sources state they were in office from 8 January but sources from the
western Roman Empire 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'', volume 1, Cambridge University Press, 1992, , p. 154.]
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