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
There is no evidence to show that Messalina had anticipated this change of fortunes any more than had her husband.
From Roman Women by Brittain, Alfred
Seneca, now in middle life, was for some reason banished to Corsica, and there for eight weary years he remained, till the Empress Messalina fell.
From The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire by Glover, T. R. (Terrot Reaveley)
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