occurs on a coin, from which we learn that he was a triumvir monetalis in the reign of
Augustus. (Eckhel, v. p. 150.) Seneca speaks (de Ira, 3.18) of a
Betilienus Bassus who was put to death in the reign of Caligula ; and it is supposed that he
may be the same as the Betillinus Cassius, who, Dio Cassius says (59.25), was executed by
command of Caligula,