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 ( 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 ( 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