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BASSUS, AUFIDIUS

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 498 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BASSUS, AUFIDIUS , a See also:Roman historian, who lived in the reign of Tiberius. His See also:work, which probably began with the See also:civil See also:wars or the See also:death of See also:Caesar, was continued by the See also:elder See also:Pliny, who, as he himself tells us, carried it down at least as far as the end of See also:Nero's reign. The Bellum Germanicum of Bassus, which is commended, may have been either a See also:separate work or a See also:section of his See also:general See also:history. The elder See also:Seneca speaks highly of him as an historian, but the fragments preserved in that writer's Suasoriae (vi. 23) See also:relating to the death of See also:Cicero, are characterized by an affected See also:style. Pliny, Nat. Hist., praefatio, 2o; See also:Tacitus, Dialogus de Oratoribus, 23; See also:Quintilian, Instil. x. 1. 103.

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