What is "bassus"

Bassus is a Latin adjective meaning "thick, fat, stumpy, short" and may refer to:

• Bassus (wasp), a braconid wasp genus

It was also the name of:

• Anicius Auchenius Bassus (ca 325 - aft. 385), Prefect of Rome
• Anicius Auchenius Bassus, consul in 408
• Anicius Auchenius Bassus, consul in 431
• Aufidius Bassus, Roman historian who lived in the reign of Tiberius
• Caesius Bassus, Roman lyric poet, who lived in the reign of Nero, died when Vesuvius erupted
• Gaius Julius Quadratus Bassus (70–117), a Romanized Galatian, a Legate at Judaea, Consul of Rome, Proconsul of Asia
• Cassianus Bassus (fl. late 6th/early 7th century), called Scholasticus (lawyer), one of the geoponici - the group of writers on agricultural subjects
• Gaius Julius Bassus (ca 45 - aft. 101), Consul Suffect in 99 and Proconsul of Bithynia and Pontus in 98 or between 100 and 101
• Titus Pomponius Bassus, governor of Galatia and Cappadocia in the reign of Trajan 98-117
• Gaius Pomponius Bassus Terentianus, a suffect consul around 193
• Pomponius Bassus (consul 211), son to the above
• Pomponius Bassus (consul 259 & 271), son to the above
• Junius Annius Bassus ( fl. 318-331), an ancient Roman politician
• Junius Bassus (June 317 - 25 August 359), an ancient Roman politician
• Lucilius Bassus, Roman legatus appointed by Emperor Vespasian to the Iudaea Province in 71 AD
• Lucius Caesonius Ovinius Rufinus Manilius Bassus (or Rufinius) (ca 250 - aft. 285), a Consul in 280
• Lucius Valerius Septimius Bassus (ca 328 - aft. 379), a Pagan and a Praefectus Urbi
• Publius Ventidius Bassus, Roman general and one of Julius Caesar's protégées
• Saleius Bassus, Roman epic poet during the reign of Vespasian; a contemporary of Gaius Valerius Flaccus
• Septimius Bassus (ca 270 - aft. 319), a Pagan and a Praefectus Urbi
• Saint Bassus of Nice (d. ca 248-251), bishop of Nice, martyred under Decius