Gaius Laecanius Bassus (consul 40)

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Gaius Laecanius Bassus was a senator and a politician of the Roman Empire, urban praetor in 32 AD [1] then consul suffectus in 40 AD. [2] [3]

Originally from Pola or Fasana in Istria, where his family was settled since around 50 BC [4] Bassus owned an important pottery workshop. He had a son, Gaius Laecanius Bassus, a Roman senator and consul. [5] Bassus might have been the brother of a certain Laecania Bassa who was the first wife of Gaius Rubellius Blandus.[ citation needed ]

Based on an inscription, Attilio Degrassi made the assumption that Bassus was still alive in 64 during the consulship of his son. [6]

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Political offices
Preceded by
Caligula III,
sine collega
Roman consul
AD 40 (suffect)
with Quintus Terentius Culleo
Succeeded by