I must borrow that saying of the eloquent Messala Corvinus, I am ashamed of my authority.

[Footnote: M. Valerius Messala Corvinus, appointed praefectus urbi, resigned within a week.

The uncertainty of life, however, was evidenced by the very fact that Lucius Philuscius, who had previously been proscribed by Sulla and had escaped, had his name now inscribed again on the tablet and perished, whereas Marcus Valerius Messala, condemned to death by Antony, not only continued to live in safety but was later appointed consul in place of Antony himself.

Brutus released him because he had always held him to be among his best friends and knew that his brother, Marcus Messala, was on very close terms with Cassius.

B.C. 32 = a. u. 722.) Caesar (III), M. Valerius M.F. Messala Corvinus.

Duration of time the remainder of the consulships of Caesar (3rd) and M. Valerius Corvinus Messala, together with two additional years, in which there were the following magistrates here enumerated: Caesar (IV), M. Licinius M.F. Crassus.

Then they were tricked (somewhat later) by Messala and were sent in different directions under the pretext that they were to be enlisted in different legions and were in some convenient way destroyed.

He, when Marcus Messala and Marcus Piso were consuls, incited by lust of sovereignty, formed a conspiracy among the nobility, and persuaded the people to go forth from their territories with all their possessions,

L. Valerius Potiti F. Messala Valesus, Cn.

At this time, in the consulship of Cornelius and Valerius Messala, earthquakes of ill omen occurred and the Tiber tore away the bridge so that the City was under water for seven days.

M. Valerius M. F. Messala, M. Aurelius M. F. Cotta.

Nero Caesar Aug. (III), M. Valerius Messala.

L. Vipsanius Messala, M. Pedo Virgilianus.

(B.C. 62 == a. u. 692.) M. Pupius M.F. Piso, M. Valerius M.F. Messala Niger (B.C. 61 == a.u. 693.)

The next year in the consulship of Piso and Marcus Messala, the men in power showed their hatred of Clodius and at the same time made expiation for his pollution by delivering him to the court, after the pontifices had decided that the rites because of his act had not been duly performed and should be annulled.

Domitius M.F. Calvinus, M. Valerius || Messala.

[-17-] And when the winter set in, in which Gnaeus Calvinus and Valerius Messala became consuls, many portents occurred even in Rome itself.

[-45-] In these same years many tumults of a seditious character had arisen in the city, and especially in connection with the elections, so that it was fully six months before Calvinus and Messala could be appointed consuls.

There Messala, and after him Atratinus, introduced Herod to them and gave a full account of his father's merits and of his own good will to the Romans.

24. 'Whate'er my Muse adventurous dares indite, Whether the niceness of thy piercing sight Applaud my lays, or censure what I write, To thee I sing, and hope to borrow fame, By adding to my page Messala's name.' 468.

Silius Messala, Sabinus.

[Sidenote:5] On these charges] Silius Messala and Pomponius Bassus [also were condemned to death by the senate: they] incurred blame because they were not pleased with what he was doing.

There was another cause of dislike underlying [the case against Messala,the point, namely, that he sturdily made public many facts in the senate.

This was what led the emperor at the outset to send for him to come to Syria, pretending to have very great need of him, whereas his real fear was that Messala might bring about a change of attitude on the part of the senators.

; he accompanied Messala his patron in his campaigns to Gaul and the East, but had no liking for war, and preferred in peace to cultivate the tender sentiments, and to attune his harp to his emotions.