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 The ''praefectus urbanus'', also called ''praefectus urbi'' or urban prefect in English, was prefect of the city of Rome, and later also of Constantinople. The office originated under the Roman kings, continued during the Republic and Empire, and ...

'' Romae under the emperors

Gratian Gratian (; la, Gratianus; 18 April 359 – 25 August 383) was emperor of the Western Roman Empire from 367 to 383. The eldest son of Valentinian I, Gratian accompanied his father on several campaigns along the Rhine and Danube frontiers and wa ...

Valentinian II Valentinian II ( la, Valentinianus; 37115 May 392) was a Roman emperor in the western part of the Roman empire between AD 375 and 392. He was at first junior co-ruler of his brother, was then sidelined by a usurper, and only after 388 sole rule ...

and

Theodosius I Theodosius I ( grc-gre, Θεοδόσιος ; 11 January 347 – 17 January 395), also called Theodosius the Great, was Roman emperor from 379 to 395. During his reign, he succeeded in a crucial war against the Goths, as well as in two ...

, 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 Clodius Celsinus Adelphius or Adelfius ('' fl.'' 333–351) was a politician of the Roman Empire. Life He was married to the poet Faltonia Betitia Proba, and they had two sons, Quintus Clodius Hermogenianus Olybrius (consul in 379) and Falt ...

and wife

Faltonia Betitia Proba Faltonia Betitia Proba (c. AD 306/315 – c. 353/366) was a Latin Roman Christian poet, perhaps the earliest female Christian poet whose work survives. A member of one of the most influential aristocratic families, she composed the '' Cento Vergi ...

, and had a son named Valerius Adelphius Bassus (''

fl. ''Floruit'' (; abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor.; from Latin for "they flourished") denotes a date or period during which a person was known to have been alive or active. In English, the unabbreviated word may also be used as a noun indicatin ...

'' 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 (''

'' 424-459), son of Anicius Hermogenianus Olybrius and wife and cousin Anicia Juliana,

praetor Praetor ( , ), also pretor, was the title granted by the government of Ancient Rome to a man acting in one of two official capacities: (i) the commander of an army, and (ii) as an elected '' magistratus'' (magistrate), assigned to discharge vario ...

in 424 and ''vir illustris'' in 459, the parents of emperor Anicius Olybrius and another

Anicius Probus Anicius Probus (''fl''. 459) was a Roman politician. A Christians, Christian, he is attested in an inscription dated to 30 August 459, found in Aquileia, but now lost; it was the inscription on the tomb of Anicia Ulfina (emended in Iuliana by recen ...

Ancestry

References

* Jones, Arnold Hugh Martin, John Robert Martindale, John Morris, ''

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 2, Cambridge University Press, 1992, , pp. 723–724.

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* * 320s births Year of death unknown Septimius Bassus, Lucius Septimii 4th-century Romans Urban prefects of Rome Year of birth unknown {{AncientRome-politician-stub