Lucius Vipstanus Messalla (consul 115) explained

Lucius Vipstanus Messalla was a Roman Senator.

Life

He was consul ordinarius in 115 with Marcus Pedo Vergilianus as his colleague. Vergilianus was killed in an earthquake at the end of January and was replaced by Titus Statilius Maximus Severus Hadrianus, who completed the nundinium with Messalla as consul suffectus.[1]

Ronald Syme states that Vipstanus Messalla was the son of Lucius Vipstanus Messalla.[2] The younger Messalla had a son named Lucius Vipstanus Poplicola Messalla.[3]

Notes and References

  1. Alison E. Cooley, The Cambridge Manual of Latin Epigraphy (Cambridge: University Press, 2012), p. 468
  2. Syme, The Augustan Aristocracy (Oxford: Clarendon Press: 1986), p. 242
  3. Syme, "Missing Persons III", , 11 (1962), p. 153

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