Sepullius Bassus

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Sepullius Bassus was a rhetorician and orator of ancient Rome who lived around the end of the 1st century BCE and 1st century CE. He was frequently mentioned by the Seneca the Elder in his Controversiae.^[1] Seneca does not convey a high estimation of his abilities as a declaimer.^[2]

He may be related to the 1st-century BCE moneyer Publius Sepullius Macer.^[2]

References

↑ Seneca the Elder, Controversiae 3.16, 17, 20-22
1 2 Echevarren, Arturo (2013). "The Emergence of a Novel Onomastic Pattern: Cognomen + Nomen in Seneca the Elder". The Classical Quarterly. 63 (1). Cambridge University Press: 356. JSTOR 23470091 . Retrieved 2026-01-01.

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Smith, William (1870). "Bassus, Sepullius". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology . Vol. 1. p. 473.

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[1] Seneca the Elder, Controversiae 3.16, 17, 20-22

[cq-2] 1 2 Echevarren, Arturo (2013). "The Emergence of a Novel Onomastic Pattern: Cognomen + Nomen in Seneca the Elder". The Classical Quarterly. 63 (1). Cambridge University Press: 356. JSTOR 23470091 . Retrieved 2026-01-01.

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