Anicius Auchenius Bassus (consul 408)

Anicius Auchenius^[1] Bassus (fl. 408) was a politician of the Roman Empire. In 408 he was appointed consul.^[2] According to B.L. Twyman, he represents the "mainline" of the gens Anicia.^[3]

Bassus was probably the son of the Anicius Auchenius Bassus who was praefectus urbi in 382-383 and of Turrenia Honorata. He had a son, also called Anicius Auchenius Bassus, consul in 431.^[4] He wrote the epigraph on the tomb of Monica, Augustine of Hippo's mother.^[5] The actual stone on which it was written was rediscovered in 1945 in the church of Santa Aurea, in Ostia Antica.^[6]

Notes

1. ↑ In one inscription (CIL IX, 1364) he is called "Euge(nius) Bassus".
2. ↑ CIL V, 6282; Zosimus, V.28.1; Sozomen, IX.1.1.
3. ↑ B.L. Twyman, "Aetius and the Aristocracy", Historia 19 (1970), p. 484
4. ↑ Martindale.
5. ↑ Anthologia latina I.670; the identification is supported by Martindale.
6. ↑ "Church of Sant'Aurea". Ostia-Antica.org. Retrieved March 15, 2011. 

Bibliography

• John Robert Martindale, Arnold Hugh Martin Jones, John Morris, "Anicius Auchenius Bassus 7", The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, Volume 2, Cambridge University Press, 1992, ISBN 0-521-20159-4, pp. 219-220.