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BASSUS, CAESIUS

This article appears in Volume V03, Page 498 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BAR-BEC
BASSUS, CAESIUS , a Roman lyric poet, who lived in the reign of Nero. He was the intimate friend of Persius, who dedicated his
sixth
 
satire
  to him, and whose works he edited (Schol. on Persius, vi. 1). He is said to have lost his
life
  in the eruption of
Vesuvius
  (79). He had a
great
  reputation as a poet; Quintilian (Instit. x. i. 96) goes so far as to say that, with the exception of
Horace
 , he was the only lyric poet worth
reading
 . He is also identified with the author of a treatise De Metris, of which considerable fragments, probably of an abbreviated edition, are extant (ed. Keil, 1885). The
work
  was probably originally in verse, and afterwards recast or epitomized in
prose
  form to be used as an instruction book. A worthless and scanty aocpunt of some of the metres of
Horace
  (in Kell, Grammatici Latin, vi. 305), bearing the title Ars Caesii
Bassi
  de Metris is not by him, but chiefly borrowed by its unknown author from the treatise, mentioned above.


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