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Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus (consul 58)

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Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus[1] was a Roman Senator who lived in the Roman Empire in the 1st century.

Family Background

Corvinus was a member of the Republican gens, Valeria. Corvinus was the namesake of Roman Senator and Augustan literacy patron Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus.[2] He could have been a son of the Roman Senator, consul Marcus Aurelius Cotta Maximus Messalinus who was a son of Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus[3] or could have been a son of Roman consul Marcus Valerius Messalla Barbatus and Domitia Lepida the Younger, thus could have been a brother of Valeria Messalina, the third wife of Roman emperor Claudius.[4]

Political career

In 46/47, Corvinus was a member of the Arval Brethren. From January to April in 58, he served as an ordinary consul with the Roman emperor Nero[5] and then from May to June in 58, as a suffect consul with Gaius Fonteius Capito.[6] During his consulship, the Roman Senate paid him half a million sesterces as a subsidy for maintaining his senatorial census rank.[7]

References

  1. ^ Biographischer Index der Antike, p.979
  2. ^ Lucan, Civil War
  3. ^ Paterculus, The Roman History, p.127
  4. ^ Lucan, Civil War
  5. ^ Shotter, Nero
  6. ^ Der Neue Pauly, Stuttgart 1999, T. 12/1 c.1110
  7. ^ Tacitus, Annals of Imperial Rome

Sources

  • Tacitus, Annals of Imperial Rome
  • D. Shotter, Nero (Google eBook) Routledge, 2012
  • Lucan, Civil War (Google eBook), Penguin, 2012
  • Velleius Paterculus – Translated with Introduction and Notes by J.C. Yardley & A.A. Barrett, The Roman History, Hackett Publishing, 2011
  • Biographischer Index der Antike (Google eBook), Walter de Gruyter, 2001
Political offices
Preceded by Consul of the Roman Empire
with Nero III
58 		Succeeded by
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