Decius Marius Venantius Basilius
Introduction Inscription erected by Basilius at the Colosseum in Rome, one of the two copies produced in occasion of a restoration funded by Basilius after the damages of an earthquake (). ('''Caecina''') '''Decius Marius Venantius Basilius''' ( 484) was a Roman official under Odoacer's rule.
Biography He was the son of Caecina Decius Basilius and the brother of Caecina Mavortius Basilius Decius and Caecina Decius Maximus Basilius, all Roman consuls. Basilius Venantius, consul in 508, was probably his son.Venantius was ''Praefectus urbi'' and consul in 484, with Theodoric the Great as colleague.He financed the restoration of the damages made by an earthquake to the Colosseum of Rome; two inscriptions are still extant, reading ( b and c):
Bibliography * A. H. M. Jones, John Robert Martindale, John Morris (1992), "Decius Marius Venantius Basilius 13", ''Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire''. Vol. II, p. 218.