C. Lecanius
1. One of the consuls in A. D. 65 (Tac. Ann. 15.3; Fasti), and probably the same person with Q. Lecanius Bassus, a contemporary of the elder Pliny, who died from puncturing a carbuncle on his left hand. (Plin. Nat. 26.1 (4); comp. Ryckius ad Tac. Ann. 15.3.)
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.