Pomponius Bassus

Pomponius Bassus (175 – 221) was a Roman senator active during the reigns of Septimius Severus, Caracalla, and Geta. Life The father of Pomponius Bassus was probably Gaius Pomponius Bassus Terentianus (c. 155-after 193), who served as a suffect consul around 193; the name of his mother is unknown. Bassus was ordinary consul in 211. Between 212 and 217 Bassus served as a legatus of Inferior or Superior Moesia and possibly as Roman governor of Mysia. Sometime between 216 and 218, he married the wealthy Annia Aurelia Faustina, the great-granddaughter of Marcus Aurelius and Faustina the Younger. When Bassus married Faustina, they moved to Faustina's large estate in Pisidia. Their marriage was a happy one. There are inscriptions at the Pisidian estate attesting both to their marriage and joint ownership of the estate. Faustina bore Bassus at least two children: a daughter called Pomponia Ummidia (born 219) and a son, Pomponius Bassus (born 220).