Caesius Bassus a Roman lyric poet, who lived in the reign of Nero. For other uses, see Roman Empire (disambiguation) The Roman Empire is the term conventionally used to describe the Ancient Roman polity in the centuries following its reorganization under the leadership of Octavian (better known as Augustus), until its radical reformation in what was later to be known as the Byzantine... Poets are authors of poems, or of other forms of poetry such as dramatic verse. ... Nero Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (December 15, 37–June 9, 68), born Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, also called (50–54) Nero Claudius Drusus Germanicus, was the fifth and last Roman Emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty. ...

He was the intimate friend of Persius, who dedicated his sixth satire to him, and whose works be edited (Schol. on Persius, vi. I). He is said to have lost his life in the eruption of Vesuvius (79). He had a great reputation as a poet; Quintilian (Instit. x. I. 96) goes so far as to say that, with the exception of Horace, he was the only lyric poet worth reading. Persius, in full Aulus Persius Flaccus (AD 34-62), was a Roman poet and satirist. ... Mount Vesuvius (Italian: Monte Vesuvio) is a volcano east of Naples, Italy, located at 40°49′N 14°26′ E. It is the only active volcano on the European mainland, although it is not currently erupting. ... AD79 Events June 23 - Titus succeeds his father Vespasian as Roman emperor. ... Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (c. ... Horace Quintus Horatius Flaccus, (December 8, 65 BC - November 27, 8 BC), known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading lyric poet in Latin, the son of a freedman, but himself born free. ...

He is also identified with the author of a treatise De Metris, of which considerable fragments, probably of an abbreviated edition, are extant (ed. Keil, 1885). The work was probably originally in verse, and afterwards recast or epitomized in prose form to be used as an instruction book. A worthless and scanty account of some of the metres of Horace (in Keil, Grammatici Latini, vi. 305), bearing the title Ars Caesii Bassi de Metris is not by him, but chiefly borrowed by its unknown author, from the treatise, mentioned above. Prose blah blah blahProse generally lacks the formal structure of meter or rhyme that is often found in poetry. ...

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• This article incorporates text from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, which is in the public domain.