Messalina

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

Messālīna or Messallīna, ae, f.

I The profligate wife of the emperor Claudius, daughter of M. Valerius Messalla Barbatus, Suet. Claud. 17; 26; Tac. A. 11, 1 sq.; Juv. 10, 333; cf. id. 6, 116 al.—

II The wife of the emperor Nero , Suet. Ner. 35; id. Oth. 10; Tac. A. 15, 68.