Aufidius Bassus was a renowned Roman historian[1] and orator who lived in the reign of Augustus and Tiberius.
[2] Uncertainty in his health perhaps prevented him from holding a public office.
[3] His work, which probably began with the Roman civil wars or the death of Julius Caesar up to the end of the Sejanus, or perhaps Tiberius,[1][3] was continued in thirty-one books by Pliny the Elder.
Bassus' other historical work was a Bellum Germanicum, which was published before his Histories.
[6] Seneca the Elder speaks highly of Bassus as a historian; however, the fragments preserved in that writer's Suasoriae (vi.