Lucius Vipstanus Messalla (consul 115)

For other people named Lucius Vipstanus Messalla, see Lucius Vipstanus Messalla (orator).

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]

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", Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte, 11 (1962), p. 153
Political offices
Preceded byas suffecti Roman consul
AD 115
with Marcus Pedo Vergilianus,
followed by Titus Statilius Maximus Severus Hadrianus 		Succeeded byas suffecti