Messāla

, a name of Valerius Corvinus, from his having conquered Me an a in Sicily. This family was very ancient; the most celebrated was a friend of Brutus, who seized the camp of August us at Philippi. He was afterwards reconciled to August us, and died A.D. 9, in his 77th year. Plutarch. ――Another consul, . ――The father of Valeria, who married the dictator Sylla. Plutarch. ――A great flatterer at the court of Tiberius.――A governor of Syria.――A tribune in one of the Roman legions during the civil war between Vespas i an and Vitelli us, of which he wrote an historical account mentioned by Tacitus, Dialogue on Oratory , ch. 14 .――A consul with Domitius, . ――A painter at Rome, who flourished B.C. 235.――A writer, whose book de August i progenie was edited 12mo, Leiden, 1648.