Gaius Laecanius Bassus Caecina Paetus

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Gaius Laecanius Bassus Caecina Paetus was a Roman politician and senator of the 1st century AD.

Laecanius Bassus was the son of Aulus Caecina Paetus , suffect consul in 37, who was involved in the Scribonian conspiracy and who committed suicide in 42, following the example of his wife Arria ( Paete, non dolet ; "Paetus, it doesn't hurt."). Laecanius Bassus was apparently adopted by Gaius Laecanius Bassus, consul in 64, whose fifth generation family owned large estates on the island of Brioni and on the Istrian mainland opposite. The adoptive father, who apparently had no biological offspring, died, as Pliny the Elder reports, shortly before 78 of an infection.

Laecanius Bassus, owned - probably from his biological father - land in the area of Minturnae , where inscriptions were found. After his suffect consulate in 70, he became 74 curator riparum et alvei Tiberis (responsible for the maintenance of the banks and riverbed of the Tiber) and at the end of his career 78/79 proconsul of Asia . A letter from his term of office that he addressed to a citizen of Miletus and a copy of which has been preserved. In it, as a member of a family who oversaw the Kabir cult, he assures him of the rights traditionally associated with this task. In Ephesus he was honored after his tenure for promoting the construction of a well house.

His presumed son, Gaius Laecanius Bassus Caecina Flaccus, tresvir monetalis (member of a three-man college to oversee coinage), died at the age of eighteen in Brundisium .

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Martial , Epigrams 1:13.
  2. ↑ Pliny, Naturalis Historia 26.5.
  3. ↑ CIL 10, 5375 , AE 1908, 84 .
  4. ↑ CIL 6, 31548 .
  5. ↑ Inscriptions from Miletus 360 ; Addendum to this .
  6. ↑ Inscriptions from Ephesus 695 : the city honored "Gaius Laecanius Bassus, the former proconsul, who did a great job for the city and took care of the construction of the fountain house and the introduction of the water into it".
  7. ↑ CIL 9, 39 .
personal data
SURNAME Laecanius Bassus, Gaius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bassus, Gaius Laecanius; Paetus, Gaius Laecanius Bassus Caecina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman suffect consul in 70
DATE OF BIRTH 1st century
DATE OF DEATH after 79