Decius Marius Venantius Basilius

(Caecina) Decius Marius Venantius Basilius (fl.

Venantius was Praefectus urbi and consul in 484, working in the post-Roman Kingdom of Odoacer and thence Kingdom of the Ostrogoths, with Theodoric the Great as colleague.

He financed the restoration of the damages made by an earthquake[which?]

to the Colosseum of Rome; two inscriptions are still extant, reading (CIL VI, 1716 b and c):

Decius Marius Venantius Basilius, vir clarissimus and inlustris, Praefectus urbi, Patricius, Consul ordinarius restored at his own expenses the arena and the podium, destroyed by a terrible earthquake

Inscription erected by Basilius at the Colosseum in Rome, one of the two copies produced in occasion of a restoration funded by Basilius after the damages of an earthquake ( CIL VI, 1716 ).