BASSUS, CASSIANUS, called SCHOLASTICUS, one of the geoponici or writers on agriculture, lived at the end of the 6th or beginning of the 7th century A.D. He compiled a collection of agricultural literature (Geoponica) afterwards revised by an un known hand, and published about 95o, in the reign of Constantine Porphyrogenitus, to whom the work has been ascribed. It con tains a list of the authorities drawn upon, and the subjects treated are agriculture, birds, bees, horses, cattle, sheep, dogs, etc.