STATILIA, MESSALIN, fe. of Nero 6th Emp. Titian in. duflos ex. Statilia Messalina, 3rd. wife of Nero, must not be confounded with that Messalina so famous for her dissociation, and for her debauchery; this one was wife of the Emperor, Claudius. Messalina survived Nero, and is so distinguished by her virtue, and by her good qualities of mind and body, that she would have married the Emperor. Othon, if this Prince had not himself hastened the end of his life by a voluntary and desperate death. In Paris at Chereau

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