Bassus, Lucilius
a name used by Cicero as proverbial for a vain and worthless author. In a letter to Atticus (12.5), speaking of his panegyric upon Cato, he says, " I am well pleased with my work, but so is Bassus Lucilius with his." Some MSS. here have Caecilius.
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.