Anicius Auchenius^[1] Bassus (fl. 408) was a politician of the Roman Empire. In 408 he was appointed consul.^[2] According to B.L. Twyman, he represents the "mainline" of the gens Anicia.^[3]

Bassus was probably the son of the Anicius Auchenius Bassus who was praefectus urbi in 382-383 and of Turrenia Honorata. He had a son, also called Anicius Auchenius Bassus, consul in 431.^[4] He wrote the epigraph for the tomb of Monica, Augustine of Hippo's mother.^[5] The actual stone on which it was written was rediscovered in 1945 in the church of Santa Aurea, in Ostia Antica.^[6]

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• John Robert Martindale, Arnold Hugh Martin Jones, John Morris, "Anicius Auchenius Bassus 7", The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, Volume 2, Cambridge University Press, 1992, ISBN 0-521-20159-4, pp. 219–220.