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MESSALLINA, VALERIA

This article appears in Volume V18, Page 189 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MEC-MIC
MESSALLINA, VALERIA , the third wife of the Roman emperor
Claudius
  '(q.v.). She was notorious for her profligacy, avarice and ambition, and exercised a complete ascendancy over her weak-minded husband, with the help of his all-powerful freedmen. During the
absence
  of
Claudius
  from the city,
Messallina
  forced a handsome youth named Gains Silius to divorce his wife and go through a
regular
  form of
marriage
  with her. The freedman Narcissus, warned by the fate of another freedman
Polybius
 , who had been put to death by
Messallina
 , informed Claudius of what had taken place, and persuaded him to consent to the removal of his wife. She was executed in the gardens of LucuIlus, which she had obtained on the death of Valerius Asiaticus, who through her machinations had been condemned on a charge of treason. She was only twenty-six years of age. By Claudius she was the
mother
  of the unfortunate Britannicus, and of Octavia, wife of Nero.
See Tacitus, Annals, xi. 1-38 ; Dio.
Cassius
  lx. 14-31; Juvenal vi. 115-135, x.' 333, xiv. 331; Suetonius, Claudius; Merivale, Hist. of the Romans under the
Empire
  ch. 5o; A. Stahr, " Agrippina " in Bader aus.demAlterlhume, iv. (1865). '


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