Gaius Laecanius Bassus was a Roman senator, who was active during the Principate.
He was consul ordinarius for the year 64 AD with Marcus Licinius Crassus Frugi as his colleague.
[1] Originally from Pola or Fasana in Istria, where his family owned important pottery works, Bassus was the son of Gaius Laecanus Bassus, suffect consul in 40.
This was likely a testamentary adoption, where Paetus added Bassus' name to his own in return for a bequest, for there is evidence that the younger man frequently used the name he received at birth.
[2] The name of a second man, Gaius Lecanius Bassus Paccius Paelignus, governor of Creta et Cyrenaica, has led some authorities to suggest he may have also been adopted by Laecanius Bassus.