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See also:BASSUS, CAESIUS , a See also:Roman lyric poet, who lived in the reign of See also:Nero. He was the intimate friend of See also:Persius, who dedicated his See also:sixth See also:satire to him, and whose See also:works he edited (Schol. on Persius, vi. 1). He is said to have lost his See also:life in the eruption of See also:Vesuvius (79). He had a See also:great reputation as a poet; See also:Quintilian (Instit. x. i. 96) goes so far as to say that, with the exception of See also:Horace, he was the only lyric poet See also:worth See also:reading. He is also identified with the author of a See also:treatise De Metris, of which considerable fragments, probably of an abbreviated edition, are extant (ed. Keil, 1885). The See also:work was probably originally in See also:verse, and afterwards recast or epitomized in See also:prose See also:form to be used as an instruction See also:book. A worthless and scanty aocpunt of some of the metres of Horace (in Kell, Grammatici Latin, vi. 305), bearing the See also:title Ars Caesii See also:Bassi de Metris is not by him, but chiefly borrowed by its unknown author from the treatise, mentioned above. End of Article: BASSUS, CAESIUSAdditional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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