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AUFIDIUS See also:BASSUS , a See also:Roman historian, who lived in the reign of Tiberius . His See also:work, which probably began with the See also:civil See also:wars or the See also:death of See also:Caesar, was continued by the See also:elder See also:Pliny, who, as he himself tells us, carried it down at least as far as the end of See also:Nero's reign . The Bellum Germanicum of See also:Bassus, which is commended, may have been either a See also:separate work or a See also:section of his See also:general See also:history . The elder See also:Seneca speaks highly of him as an historian, but the fragments preserved in that writer's Suasoriae (vi . 23) See also:relating to the death of See also:Cicero, are characterized by an affected See also:style . Pliny, Nat . Hist., praefatio, 2o; See also:Tacitus, Dialogus de Oratoribus, 23; See also:Quintilian, Instil. x . 1 . 103 . |
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