{{Short description|1st century Roman orator}} '''Sepullius Bassus''' was a rhetorician and orator of ancient Rome who lived around the end of the 1st century BCE and 1st century CE. He was frequently mentioned by the Seneca the Elder in his ''Controversiae''.<ref>Seneca the Elder, ''Controversiae'' 3.16, 17, 20-22</ref> Seneca does not convey a high estimation of his abilities as a declaimer.<ref name="cq"/>
He may be related to the 1st-century BCE moneyer Publius Sepullius Macer.<ref name="cq">{{cite journal | last =Echevarren | first =Arturo | authorlink = | title =The Emergence of a Novel Onomastic Pattern: Cognomen + Nomen in Seneca the Elder | journal =The Classical Quarterly | volume =63 | issue =1 | pages =356 | publisher =Cambridge University Press | date =2013 | language =English | url =http://www.jstor.org/stable/23470091 | jstor =23470091 | issn = | doi = | accessdate = 2026-01-01}}</ref>
==References== {{reflist}}
{{DGRBM|author=WS|title=Bassus, Sepullius |volume=1|page=473|url=https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moa/acl3129.0001.001/488}}
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