The gens Laecania or Lecania was a minor plebeian family at ancient Rome.
The first to attain the consulship was Gaius Laecanius Bassus in AD 40.
[2] The name might be derived from the surname Laeca, which was used by a family of the Porcia gens, or from the same root.
[3] The only important family of the Laecanii bore the cognomen Bassus, originally indicating someone stout.
[4] This family settled at Fasana in Istria shortly after 50 BC,[5] and founded an important pottery workshop, which they owned until AD 78, when Gaius Laecanius Bassus died without heirs.