Statilia Messalina

Family: Roman · Role: wife of Nero · First appears: Nero 35

Life events

• Nero put Atticus Vestinus to death to obtain possession of Statilia Messalina.(Nero 35)
  • With: Nero Atticus Vestinus
  • “To obtain possession of her, he put to death her husband, Atticus Vestinus, who was then consul.”

Nero 35

• married with Nero “He had, besides Octavia, two other wives: Poppaea Sabina, whose father had borne the office of quaestor, and who had been married before to a Roman knight: and, after her, Statilia Messalina,”
• elder kin: Taurus “Statilia Messalina, great-grand-daughter of Taurus who was twice consul, and received the honour of a triumph.”

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Extracted from the original text of The Lives of the Twelve Caesars. Made with Rho MD.