The corpus record — Latin

Messalina

Messalina · f

The profligate wife of the emperor Claudius, daughter of

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Where it lives

Apocolocyntosis 3 · 11.07/10k
Divus Claudius 7 · 10.96/10k
Otho 1 · 6.34/10k
Vitellius 1 · 4.15/10k
Clodius Albinus 1 · 3.7/10k
Annales 27 · 3.04/10k
Nero 2 · 2.56/10k
Saturae 1 · 0.4/10k
Naturalis Historia 2 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

Messālīna — Lewis & Short

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.

Where it came from

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