Messalina
Americannoun
noun
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Later we meet Messalina, who remains a byword for manipulative awfulness.
From The Guardian • Jun. 5, 2013
In Claudius the God, which followed, Graves pictured Claudius as the one Roman who believed that his wife, Messalina, was an honest woman, preserved the flavor of an old chronicle in a lively, modern story.
From Time Magazine Archive
In all his tribulations his adored young wife Messalina was his greatest comfort.
From Time Magazine Archive
Messalina, with another woman on her left, black-and-white, with black background.
From Aubrey Beardsley by Ross, Robert
Tiberius and Claudius and Nero, Messalina and Agrippina, in spite of the most mordant criticism, will live for ever as they have been portrayed by the fervid imagination of Tacitus.
From Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius by Dill, Samuel
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