Английская Википедия:Aufidius Bassus
Шаблон:Short description Aufidius Bassus was a renowned Roman historian[1] and orator who lived in the reign of Augustus and Tiberius.[2]
Bassus was a man much admired in Rome[3] for his eloquence.[4] He drew up an account of the Roman wars in Germany.[2] Uncertainty in his health perhaps prevented him from holding a public office.[4] He suddenly died of illness leaving his works unfinished.[3]
His work, which probably began with the Roman civil wars or the death of Julius Caesar up to the end of the Sejanus, or perhaps Tiberius,[1][3] was continued in thirty-one books by Pliny the Elder.[2][5] Pliny the Elder carried it down at least as far as the end of Nero's reign. Bassus' other historical work was a Bellum Germanicum, which was published before his Histories.[6]
Seneca the Elder speaks highly of Bassus as a historian; however, the fragments preserved in that writer's Suasoriae (vi. 23) relating to the death of Cicero are characterized by an affected style.[6]
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Шаблон:EB1911 article with no significant updates
- ↑ 1,0 1,1 Шаблон:Cite book
- ↑ 2,0 2,1 2,2 Шаблон:Cite book
- ↑ 3,0 3,1 3,2 Шаблон:Cite book
- ↑ 4,0 4,1 Шаблон:Cite book
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite book
- ↑ 6,0 6,1 Шаблон:EB1911 Endnotes:
- Pliny, Nat. Hist., praefatio, 20
- Tacitus, Dialogus de Oratoribus, 23
- Quintilian, Instit x. I. 103.
