Bassus, Betilienus
occurs on a coin, from which we learn that he was a triumvir monetalis in the reign of Augustus. (Eckhel, v. p. 150.) Seneca speaks (de Ira, 3.18) of a Betilienus Bassus who was put to death in the reign of Caligula; and it is supposed that he may be the same as the Betillinus Cassius, who, Dio Cassius says (59.25), was executed by command of Caligula, A. D. 40.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.