BASSUS, AUFIDIUS, a Roman historian (d. probably A.D. 6o). His work, which began with the civil wars or the death of Caesar, was continued by the elder Pliny. The Bellum Ger manicum of Bassus may have been either a separate work or a section of his general history. Some fragments on the death of Cicero are preserved in the Suasoriae of the elder Seneca (vi. 23), but hardly justify Seneca's praise of him.
See Pliny, Nat. hist., praefatio, 20 ; Tacitus, Dialogus de Oratoribus, 23 ; Quintilian, Instit. x. i. 103.