Aufidius Bassus
Template:Short description Aufidius Bassus was a renowned Roman historian<ref name="auto">Template:Cite book</ref> and orator who lived in the reign of Augustus and Tiberius.<ref name="auto1">Template:Cite book</ref>
Bassus was a man much admired in Rome<ref name="auto2">Template:Cite book</ref> for his eloquence.<ref name="auto3">Template:Cite book</ref> He drew up an account of the Roman wars in Germany.<ref name="auto1"/> Uncertainty in his health perhaps prevented him from holding a public office.<ref name="auto3"/> He suddenly died of illness, leaving his works unfinished.<ref name="auto2"/>
His work, which probably began with the Roman civil wars or the death of Julius Caesar up to the end of the Sejanus, or perhaps Tiberius,<ref name="auto"/><ref name="auto2"/> was continued in thirty-one books by Pliny the Elder.<ref name="auto1"/><ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Pliny the Elder carried it down at least as far as the end of Nero's reign. Bassus' other historical work was a Bellum Germanicum, which was published before his Histories.<ref name="EB1911">{{#if: |
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}}{{#ifeq: ||}} Endnotes:
- Pliny, Nat. Hist., praefatio, 20
- Tacitus, Dialogus de Oratoribus, 23
- Quintilian, Instit x. I. 103.</ref>
Seneca the Elder speaks highly of Bassus as a historian; however, the fragments preserved in that writer's Suasoriae (vi. 23) relating to the death of Cicero are characterized by an affected style.<ref name="EB1911"/>