Gaius Caesius Bassus (d. AD 79) was a Roman lyric poet who lived in the reign of Nero.
[1] He was the intimate friend of Persius, who dedicated his sixth satire to him, and whose works he edited (Schol.
[2] He is also identified with the author of a treatise De Metris of which considerable fragments, probably of an abbreviated edition, are extant (ed.
[3] The work was probably originally in verse, and afterwards recast or epitomized in prose form to be used as an instruction book.
305), bearing the title Ars Caesii Bassi de Metris is not by him but chiefly borrowed by its unknown author, from the treatise mentioned above.