Lecanius

1. One of the consuls in A. D. 65 (Tac. Ann. 15.3; Fasti), and probably the same person with Q. Lecanius Bassus, a contemporary of the elder Pliny, who died from puncturing a carbuncle on his left hand. (Plin. Nat. 26.1 (4); comp. Ryckius ad Tac. Ann. 15.3.)

2. A soldier, one of the several persons to whom Galba's death-blow was attributed, A. D. 69. (Tac. Hist. 1.41.) [W.B.D]

[Areius.]