Lucius Mesalla av Vipstanii

**Lucius Mesalla av Vipstanii**
född 45, död 80
Lucius Mesalla av Vipstanii f. 45 Roma, Lazio, Italien d. 80 Roma, Lazio, Italien Orator of the Roman Empire [ Biografi ] [ Barn ]	Mesalla Gallus av Vipstanii f. 8 Roma, Lazio, Italien d. 60 Roma, Lazio, Italien Suffect consul of the Roman Empire in 48	Lucius Gallus av Vipstanii f. -35 Roma, Lazio, Italien d. 17 Roma, Lazio, Italien Praetor of the Roman Empire in 17

		Valeria Mesalla av Valerii f. -10 Roma, Lazio, Italien d. 25 Roma, Lazio, Italien	Messallinus av Valerii f. -36 Roma, Lazio, Italien
			Marcella Minor av Claudii f. -40 Roma, Lazio, Italien

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Lucius Mesalla av Vipstanii, född 45 i Roma, Lazio, Italien, död 80 i Roma, Lazio, Italien. Orator of the Roman Empire.

Lucius Vipstanus Messalla was a military officer, politician and a noted orator.

In AD 69, he was a tribunus militum stationed with the legion VII Claudia in Moesia which entered the civil war against the emperor Vitellius. He was temporarily in command of the legion in September and October 69, after the legion's Legate was forced to flee; later, Messalla wrote an account of the campaign.

Messalla was a friend of the historian Tacitus, who used Messalla's account of the campaign in his own work on the Histories. Tacitius described Messalla as an outstanding orator; in AD 70, Vipstanus Messalla, who was not yet of senatorial age, defended his older step-brother, the notorious informer Lucius Aquilius Regulus in the Curia Julia. Massalla's family's prestiege was sufficient to sway enough of the Senate to reject the charges laid against Regulus.

Vipstanus Messalla probably died during the reign of Titus, possibly during the plague that swept through the city in AD 80.

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Lucius Mesalla av Vipstanii, född 75, död 120