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Bassus Aciculatus
Bassus is a Latin adjective meaning "thick, fat, stumpy, short" and may refer to: * ''Bassus (wasp)'', 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) (220 – after 271), Roman senator and consul * Junius Bassus ( 318–331), Roman praetorian prefect and consul in 331 * Junius Bassus Theotecnius (317–359), Roman politician * Lucilius Bassus, Roman legatus appointed by Emperor Vespasian * Lucius Caesonius Ovinius Ru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Latin
Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect spoken in the lower Tiber area (then known as Latium) around present-day Rome, but through the power of the Roman Republic it became the dominant language in the Italian region and subsequently throughout the Roman Empire. Even after the fall of Western Rome, Latin remained the common language of international communication, science, scholarship and academia in Europe until well into the 18th century, when other regional vernaculars (including its own descendants, the Romance languages) supplanted it in common academic and political usage, and it eventually became a dead language in the modern linguistic definition. Latin is a highly inflected language, with three distinct genders (masculine, feminine, and neuter), six or seven noun cases (nominative, accusative, genitive, dative, ablative, and vocative), five declensions, four verb conjuga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucilius Bassus
Sextus Lucilius Bassus was the 2nd Roman legate appointed by Emperor Vespasian to Iudaea Province in 71. Biography Assigned to finish off the last remnants after the First Jewish–Roman War in the province, he led the legion Legio X Fretensis, destroying the Jewish strongholds Herodium and Machaerus on their march to the siege of Masada. Bassus fell ill and died on the way, however, and was replaced by Lucius Flavius Silva in late 72. Before his appointment to Iudaea, Bassus was prefect of the ''Classis Ravennas'' and the ''Classis Misenensis'' and betrayed Vitellius by siding with Vespasian during the Year of the Four Emperors (69). Citations See also * Gens Lucilia The gens Lucilia was a plebeian family at ancient Rome. The most famous member of this gens was the poet Gaius Lucilius, who flourished during the latter part of the second century BC.''Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology'', vo ... External links Wars of the Jews by Flavius Josephus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bassus Of Nice
Saint Bassus of Nice (d. 250/251) 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 burned with red-hot blades and pierced from head to feet by two large ship-building nails, one through each foot. He is venerated as a saint. His feast day is 5 December. He is the patron saint of Cupra Marittima in Italy, where his body was taken after his death, and since 1922 or 1923 the second patron saint of Nice. See also *Decian persecution The Decian persecution of Christians occurred in 250 AD under the Roman Emperor Decius. He had issued an edict ordering everyone in the Empire to perform a sacrifice to the Roman gods and the well-being of the emperor. The sacrifices had to ... References Gallo-Roman saints 3rd-century Christian martyrs Year of birth unknown 250s deaths 3rd-century bishops in Gaul Bishops of Nice 3 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saleius Bassus
Saleius Bassus was a Roman epic poet. He lived during the reign of Vespasian, being a contemporary of Gaius Valerius Flaccus. Quintilian credited him with a vigorous and poetical genius and Julius Secundus, one of the speakers in Tacitus' ''Dialogus de Oratoribus'' styles him a perfect poet and most illustrious bard. Saleius was apparently overtaken by poverty, but was generously treated by Vespasian who gave him a present of 500,000 sesterces. Nothing from his works has been preserved; the '' Laus Pisonis'', which has been attributed to him, is probably by Lucan Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (3 November 39 AD – 30 April 65 AD), better known in English as Lucan (), was a Roman poet, born in Corduba (modern-day Córdoba), in Hispania Baetica. He is regarded as one of the outstanding figures of the Imperial ... or Titus Calpurnius Siculus. References * The Siculus attribution cites J. Held, ''De Saleio Basso'', 1834. {{DEFAULTSORT:Bassus, Saleius 1st-century Roman poets An ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cassianus Bassus
Cassianus Bassus, called Scholasticus (lawyer) was one of the , the group of writers on agricultural subjects. He lived at the end of the 6th or the beginning of the 7th century. He compiled from earlier writers a collection of agricultural literature; the principal source was Vindonius Anatolius. Dedicated to his son Bassus, his work was entitled ''Eklogai peri georgias'' ("Selections on farming"); the usual Latin version of this title is ''Eclogae de re rustica''. The original Greek text of Cassianus Bassus has been lost, but some of the contents have survived as part of a collection entitled '' Geoponica'', completed about the year 950 and dedicated to the emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus. It contains a full list of the authorities drawn upon, and the subjects treated include agriculture, birds, bees, horses, cattle, sheep, dogs, fishes and the like. In addition, a 7th-century Middle Persian translation and two different Arabic language translations of respectively the 8 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 reputation as a poet; Quintilian (''Instit.'' x. I. 96) went so far as to say that with the exception of Horace, he was the only lyric poet worth reading. He is also identified with the author of a treatise ''De Metris'' of which considerable fragments, probably of an abbreviated edition, are extant (ed. Keil, 1885). The work was probably originally in verse, and afterwards recast or epitomized in prose Prose is a form of written or spoken language that follows the natural flow of speech, uses a language's ordinary grammatical structures, or follows the conventions of formal academic writing. It differs from most traditional poetry, where the f ... form to be used as an instruction book. An account of some of the metres of Horace (in Keil, ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 perhaps prevented him from holding a public office. He suddenly died of illness leaving his works unfinished. His work, which probably began with the Roman civil wars or the death of Julius Caesar up to the end of the Sejanus, or perhaps Tiberius, was continued in thirty-one books by Pliny the Elder. Pliny the Elder carried it down at least as far as the end of Nero's reign. Bassus' other historical work was a ''Bellum Germanicum'', which was published before his ''Histories''. Endnotes: * Pliny, ''Nat. Hist.'', praefatio, 20 * Tacitus, ''Dialogus de Oratoribus'', 23 * Quintilian, Instit x. I. 103. Seneca the Elder speaks highly of Bassus as an historian; however, the fragments preserved in that writer's ''Suasoriae'' (vi. 23) relating to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 grandfather was a Lucius Septimius ... (b. c. 210), son of Gaius Septimius Severus Aper, while his maternal grandparents were the Roman Senator Pomponius Bassus and wife the noblewoman Pomponia Gratidia. Through his maternal grandfather, Bassus was a descendant of the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, Roman empress Faustina the Younger and of the former ruling Nerva–Antonine dynasty of the Roman Empire. Bassus was ''praefectus urbi'' of Rome between 317 (he is attested in office on 15 May) until 319 (at least until 1 September). Between 13 July and 13 August 318, he was at court; for this reason he was substituted by Julius Cassius. He had a daughter, Septimia Bassa, born c. 305, who was the first wife of Valerius Maximus Basilius. Ancestr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Publius Ventidius Bassus
Publius Ventidius ( 89–38 BC) was a Ancient Rome, Roman general and one of Julius Caesar's protégés. He won key victories against the Parthian Empire, Parthians which resulted in the deaths of key leaders – victories which redeemed the losses of Marcus Licinius Crassus, Crassus and paved the way for Mark Antony, Antony's incursions. According to Plutarch in his "Parallel Lives, Life of Antony", the three military victories of Ventidius over the Parthians singularly resulted in the only award (up to the time of Plutarch's writing) to a Roman general of the Roman triumph, triumphal ceremony for victory over Parthians. History Ventidius was from Picenum. He and his mother were captured during the Social War (91–87 BC), Social War, and both were marched as prisoners in Pompey Strabo's Roman triumph, triumph through the streets of Rome. He was forced to work as a muleteer and quickly saw the Roman army as his path to advancement. Ventidius attracted Caesar's notice during the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 and first wife Septimia Bassa. He was ''praefectus urbi'' Romae under the emperors Gratian, Valentinian II and Theodosius I, between 379 (the year of Thedosius's ascension) and 383 (the year of Gratian's death). He possibly married Adelphia, as their son's ''nomina'' and ''cognomen'' suggest, daughter of Clodius Celsinus Adelphius and wife Faltonia Betitia Proba, and had a son named Valerius Adelphius Bassus (''fl.'' 383 and 392), ''vir consularis'' and ''consul. Venet.'' in 383 and in 392, in turn the father of Valerius Adelphius and the paternal grandfather of Adelphia, wife of Anicius Probus (''fl.'' 424-459), son of Anicius Hermogenianus Olybrius and wife and cousin Anicia Juliana, praetor in 424 and ''vir illustris'' in 459, the parents of emperor Anicius Olybrius and another Anicius Probus. Ancestry References * Jones, Arnold Hugh Martin, John Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caesonius Bassus
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. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Caesonius Bassus Imperial Roman consuls 3rd-century births 4th-century deaths Bassus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucius Caesonius Ovinius Rufinus Manilius Bassus
Lucius Caesonius Ovinius Manlius Rufinianus Bassus (c. AD 227 – c. AD 300) was a Roman military officer and senator who was appointed suffect consul twice, in around AD 260 and 284. Biography Rufinianus Bassus was the son of Lucius Caesonius Lucillus Macer Rufinianus and a member of the 3rd century Patrician '' gens Caesonia''. Although Bassus had a lengthy and illustrious career, most of the posts he held are not easily dateable. It is conjectured that his career began around AD 240–245, either in the reign of Gordian III or Philip the Arab, with his posting as a ''Triumvir capitalis'' (prison manager), and this was followed with his posting as '' sevir turmae deducendae'' (commander of one of the six squadrons of equites, who had the responsibility for organizing and financially running the city's games). He was then the imperial candidate for the posts of Quaestor and Praetor. His propraetorial career was relatively brief, with firstly an appointment as ''curator rei publica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
