Bassus, Julius
a Roman orator, frequently mentioned by the elder Seneca in his Controversiae, seems to be the same as the Junius Bassus who was called Asinus albus when Quintilian was a boy, and who was distinguished by his abusive wit. (Quint. Inst. 6.3. §§ 27, 57, 74.)
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.