Vettius Agorius Basilius Mavortius (fl. 527–534) was a Roman aristocrat who lived duringOstrogothic rule. He was appointedconsul for 527.

Mavortius was probably the son ofCaecina Mavortius Basilius Decius, consul in 486, and related toVettius Agorius Praetextatus, an influential aristocrat of the late 4th century. In 527, Mavortius held the positions ofComes domesticorum (Commander of the Imperial Guard) and consul.

Subscriptions in three manuscripts containing the works ofHorace state that Mavortius emended one text of that poet in the sixth century.^[1] The scholarVollmer believed Mavortius' copy was the archetype of the entire tradition, but R. J. Tarrant argues that the subscription was copied from Mavortius' manuscript into an unrelated book, then found its way into the three surviving manuscripts – which otherwise belong to different branches of the manuscript transmission.^[2] A subscription with Mavortius' name also appears in a sixth-century manuscript ofPrudentius.^[3]

• MacGill, Scott,Virgil Recomposed: The Mythological and Secular Centos in Antiquity, Oxford University Press, 2005,ISBN 0-19-517564-6, pp.72-73.
• John Robert Martindale, "Vettius Agorius Basilius Mavortius", inProsopography of the Later Roman Empire, Volume 2, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1980,ISBN 0-521-20159-4, pp. 736–737.

• 6th-century western Roman consuls
• Comites domesticorum
• Vettii

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