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.
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Caesius Bassus
- Born
- Caesius Bassus was born in 50.
- Died
- Caesius Bassus died on 1 January 79.
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- Ancient Rome
- Occupation
- poet
- Languages
- Latin
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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.
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On Persius, vi. He had a great reputation as a poet; Quintilian (Instit. X. 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. The work was probably originally in verse, and afterwards recast or epitomized in prose form to be used as an instruction book. An account of some of the metres of Horace (in Keil, Grammatici Latini, vi. 305), bearing the title Ars Caesii Bassi de Metris is not by him but chiefly borrowed by its unknown author, from the treatise mentioned above. He is said to have lost his life in the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79.
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50
Caesius Bassus born.
79
Caesius Bassus died.
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- Gemeinsame Normdatei 118675257, Caesius, Bassus.
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Caesius Bassus, The Fragmentary Latin Poets, 1993
27 = Caesius Bassus 2, The Fragmentary Latin Poets, 1993
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- 1.harvsp Duret 1986 p=3194 .
- 2.harvsp Duret 1986 p=3193 .
- 3.Pline le Jeune, Lettres, VI, 16.
- 4.harvsp Duret 1986 p=3198 .
- 5.Quintilien, Institution oratoire, X, 1, 96.
- 6.L'Âge d'argent doré, Presses universitaires de France, 1951.
- 7.Les prétentions généalogiques à Athènes.
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Gemeinsame Normdatei 118675257, Caesius, Bassus.Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
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