Enciclopedia Cattolica

BASSO

Volume II · p. 585 · 1949

English translation · Testo originale italiano

Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.

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BASSO. - Proconsul, not otherwise identifiable, author of an epitaph of three couplets on a tomb BASSILLA - Tombstone of Tollia Asclepia (c. 3rd century). Rome, via Salaria Vetere.
Monica, the mother of St Augustine, of whose original a fragment was recently found at Ostia.
BIBL.: Anthologia Latina, ed. A. Riese, Leipzig 1916, no. 670. Antonio Ferrua

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“BASSO.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. II (1949), p. 585. Azione Romana digital edition, https://azioneromana.com/article/basso.