Gaius Iulius Quadratus Bassus

Gaius Iulius Quadratus Bassus († around 118 AD in Dacia ) was an ancient Roman politician and military leader of the late 1st and early 2nd centuries AD.

The Romanized Galatians of royal descent initially held knightly officer ranks and the bursary before he was governor of the province of Creta et Cyrene from 76 to 78 . After his return to Rome he was aedile and in 82 praetor , 83 legate of legio XI Claudia . After taking part in Domitian's Dacian war , he was governor in Judea from around 90 to 92 . Under Trajan , Quadratus Bassus was a suffect consul from May to August 105 AD . As a comes of the emperor and legate he took part in Trajan's 2nd Dacian war. Then (about 107-112) he was governor of the province of Cappadocia et Galatia , then of Syria , from where he took part in Trajan's Parthian War . 117/118 he took over the governorship of Dacia , where he died. He was in Pergamon buried

Gaius Iulius Bassus , consul in 139, was probably his son.

literature

• Rudolf Hanslik : Iulius II. 78 . In: Der Kleine Pauly , Vol. 2 (1967), Col. 1535.