Anicius AucheniusIn one inscription () he is called "Euge(nius) Bassus". Bassus (fl. 408) was a politician of the Roman Empire. In 408, he was appointed consul.; Zosimus, V.28.1; Sozomen, IX.1.1. According to B. L. Twyman, he represents the "mainline" of the gens Anicia.B.L. Twyman, "Aetius and the Aristocracy", Historia 19 (1970), p. 484
Bassus was probably the son of the Anicius Auchenius Bassus who was praefectus urbi in 382–383 and of Turrenia Honorata. He had a son, also called Anicius Auchenius Bassus, consul in 431.Martindale, PLRE. He wrote the epigraph for the tomb of Monica, Augustine of Hippo's mother.Anthologia latina I.670; the identification is supported by Martindale, PLRE. The actual stone on which it was written was rediscovered in 1945 in the church of Santa Aurea, in Ostia Antica.
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Bibliography John Robert Martindale, Arnold Hugh Martin Jones, John Morris, "Anicius Auchenius Bassus 7", The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, Volume 2, Cambridge University Press, 1992, , pp. 219–220.