Lucius Vipstanus Messalla (consul 115)
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Lucius Vipstanus Messalla was a Roman Senator.
Life
[edit]He was consul ordinarius in 115 with Marcus Pedo Vergilianus as his colleague. Vergilianus was killed in an earthquake at the end of January and was replaced by Titus Statilius Maximus Severus Hadrianus, who completed the nundinium with Messalla as consul suffectus.[1]
Ronald Syme states that Vipstanus Messalla was the son of Lucius Vipstanus Messalla.[2] The younger Messalla had a son named Lucius Vipstanus Poplicola Messalla.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Alison E. Cooley, The Cambridge Manual of Latin Epigraphy (Cambridge: University Press, 2012), p. 468
- ^ Syme, The Augustan Aristocracy (Oxford: Clarendon Press: 1986), p. 242
- ^ Syme, "Missing Persons III", Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte, 11 (1962), p. 153