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Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2001 18:48:55 +0200
From: Terrence Lockyer <lockyert@mweb.co.za>
Subject: Caesius Bassus
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At Institutio Oratoria 10.1.96, Quintilian states his opinion that, aside
from Horace, Caesius Bassus is the only Latin lyric poet worth reading.
This appears to have been the same Caesius Bassus who was a friend and
possibly the first editor of the satirist Persius (according to the Vita
Persi edited by Clausen along with the *Satires* themselves).  He is usually
taken to be the Bassus addressed in Persius 6.1.  Now, my question is:  what
evidence, aside from Quintilian's own rather imprecise reference, is
available for the dates, and especially for the death, of this Caesius
Bassus?  OCD2 and OCD3 are not helpful on this, and I do not have immediate
access to the prosopographical references cited in the latter.

Thanks for any assistance.


Terrence Lockyer
Johannesburg, South Africa

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