surnamed Scholasticus, was in all probability the compiler of the Geoponica (Γεωπονικά), or work on Agriculture, which is usually ascribed to the emperor Constantine Porphyrogeneta. (A. D. 911-959.) Cassianus Bassus appears to have compiled it by the command of this emperor, who has thus obtained the honour of the work. Of Bassus we know nothing, save that he lived at Constantinople, and was born at Maratonymum, probably a place in Bithynia. (Geopon. 5.6, comp. 5.36.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology
Smith, William
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. William Smith, LLD, ed. 1890