Gaius Laecanius Bassus (consul 40) explained

Gaius Laecanius Bassus was a senator and a politician of the Roman Empire, urban praetor in 32 AD^[1] then consul suffectus in 40 AD.^{[2] [3]}

Originally from Pola or Fasana in Istria, where his family was settled since around 50 BC^[4] Bassus owned an important pottery workshop. He had a son, Gaius Laecanius Bassus, a Roman senator and consul.^[5] Bassus might have been the brother of a certain Laecania Bassa who was the first wife of Gaius Rubellius Blandus.

Based on an inscription, Attilio Degrassi made the assumption that Bassus was still alive in 64 during the consulship of his son.^[6]

Notes and References

1. Bruno Pedro. Carcedo de Andrés. Gerardo Martínez. Díez. Reaparición de dos inscripciones de Lara de los Infantes (Burgos): CIL II 2866 y CIL II 2879 =Rediscovery of two Inscriptions from Lara de los Infantes (Burgos): CIL II 2866 and CIL II 2879. Espacio Tiempo y Forma. Serie II, Historia Antigua. 29. 2016-11-23. 2340-1370. 10.5944/etfii.29.2016.17049. 21 April 2022. 89. free.
2. Book: Starac . Alka . Hercules' Sanctuary in the Quarter of St Theodore, Pula . 2018 . Archaeopress Publishing Limited . 9781784918743 . 95 .
3. fr. Francis. Tassaux. Laecanii. Recherches sur une famille sénatoriale d'Istrie. Mélanges de l'École française de Rome. Antiquité. 94. 1. 1982. 0223-5102. 10.3406/mefr.1982.1321. 21 April 2022. 227–269.
4. Book: Veneto (Italy). Giunta regionale. Dipartimento per l'informazione . Quaderni di archeologia del Veneto QdAV · Volume 24 . 2008 . La Giunta . 175 . 9788884092151 . it.
5. Book: II. FRAGMENTA ACTORUM FRATRUM ARVALIUM. Acta fratrum Arvalium quae supersunt restituit et illustravit. De Gruyter. 31 December 1967. 10.1515/9783111696676-002 . 21 April 2022.
6. Web site: it-IT . IV (1942) – epigraphica . 11 December 2022.