person
Aufidius Bassus
Bassus
also: Bassus
Roman historian of the early first century AD (a history including the German wars, later continued by the elder Pliny) and an Epicurean. In Letter 30 Seneca visits him as he faces death in old age with philosophic calm.
Reading notes
- Moral Letters to Lucilius §4.30.1 Aufidius Bassus
Roman historian of the early Empire (an account of the German wars and a history continued by the elder Pliny), an Epicurean; Seneca presents his composure in mortal illness as philosophy proved in practice.