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BASSI

BASSI is a Latin form of Bassus, meaning “Bassus, a Roman family name”. It is the nominative plural masculine noun or vocative plural masculine noun or genitive singular masculine noun.

Found 39 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Philippicae 11.32: … necessarius meus, post interitum Treboni profecto ne dici quidem se legatum Dolabellae volet. est Q. Caecili Bassi, privati illius quidem, sed fortis et praeclari viri, robustus et victor exercitus.

Seneca the Elder, Controversiae 1.3.4: IVLII BASSI. Nihil putaueram amplius adici posse audaciae istius, quam quod in illa in cruce Vestam nominauerat: at enim …

All forms of Bassus (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.