# Sepullius Bassus

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{{Short description|1st century Roman orator}}
'''Sepullius Bassus''' was a [rhetoric](/source/rhetoric)ian and [orator](/source/orator) of [ancient Rome](/source/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](/source/Seneca_the_Elder) in his ''Controversiae''.<ref>[Seneca the Elder](/source/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](/source/moneyer) [Publius Sepullius Macer](/source/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](/source/Cambridge_University_Press)
 | date =2013
 | language =English
 | url =http://www.jstor.org/stable/23470091
 | jstor =23470091
 | issn =
 | doi =
 | accessdate = 2026-01-01}}</ref>

==References==
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{{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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Category:1st-century BC Romans
Category:1st-century Romans
Category:Ancient Roman rhetoricians

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