Bassus

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 (c. 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 (fl. 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 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 (c. 328 – after 379), Praefectus Urbi Romae
• Publius Ventidius Bassus, Roman general
• Septimius Bassus (c. 270 – aft. 319), Roman politician

Others

• Aufidius Bassus, Roman historian
• Caesius Bassus (died 79), Roman lyric poet
• Cassianus Bassus (fl. 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

See also

• Basilica of Junius Bassus, a civil basilica on the Esquiline Hill in Rome
• Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus, early Christian Sarcophagus used by Junius Bassus