Some later sources infrequently give him the cognomen "Bassus". No official or contemporary source calls him that, however, leading modern authors to avoid it as well. Wylie, p. 140 n. 1; Syme, "Sabinus the muleteer", Latomus vol. 17 no. 1 (1958) p. 76; Oxford Classical Dictionary, "Ventidius, Publius".
