Anicius Auchenius[1] Bassus (fl.
[2] According to B. L. Twyman, he represents the "mainline" of the gens Anicia.
He had a son, also called Anicius Auchenius Bassus, consul in 431.
[4] He wrote the epigraph for the tomb of Monica, Augustine of Hippo's mother.
[5] The actual stone on which it was written was rediscovered in 1945 in the church of Santa Aurea, in Ostia Antica.