person
Quintus Caecilius Bassus
Caecilius Bassus
also: Bassus Caecilius, Caecilius Bassus
A Pompeian officer who in 46 BC raised a revolt in Syria, killed the Caesarian governor Sex. Iulius Caesar, and held out at Apamea; in 44-43 BC he remained a republican strongpoint in the east before his troops were absorbed by Cassius.
Reading notes
- Ad Atticum 14.9 §3 as Caecilius was being besieged
Q. Caecilius Bassus, the Pompeian who had seized Syria and held out at Apamea; the besieger ("by him") is the Caesarian commander, and the Parthian relief under Pacorus is the news Vetus reports.
- Ad Atticum 15.13 §4 a slave of Bassus has come
Quintus Caecilius Bassus, a Pompeian who had seized command of a legion in Syria and held out at Apamea; the rumour that the "Alexandrian legions" were stirring and that Cassius was awaited fed Cicero's hope that the Republic might recover.
- Ad Familiares 12.11 §1 the legion which Q. Caecilius Bassus had
Q. Caecilius Bassus was a renegade Pompeian who had seized a legion in Syria and held out against Caesarian forces; in 43 BC it went over to Cassius.
- Ad Familiares 12.18 §1 Caecilius Bassus
Q. Caecilius Bassus, a Pompeian who in 46 BC raised a revolt in Syria and seized the province from Caesar's governor Sex. Iulius Caesar; his next move was the uncertainty Cornificius was waiting to resolve.