person
Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus
Messalla Corvinus
also: Corvinus, Messalla
Orator, soldier, and literary patron (64 BC–AD 8); an ancestor of the interlocutor Vipstanus Messalla. His smooth, sweet style is taken as the late flowering of Republican eloquence.
Reading notes
- The Annals §3.34 whose father was Messala
Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus, the great Augustan orator and patron of letters; the speaker here inherited 'an image of his father's eloquence.'
- A Dialogue on Oratory §12 no book of Asinius or Messalla
Messalla Corvinus, Republican orator and patron, ancestor of the interlocutor Vipstanus Messalla; his speeches are reckoned less illustrious than the tragedies of Ovid and Varius.
- A Dialogue on Oratory §17 Corvinus
Messalla Corvinus, who lived into Augustus's reign and so links the 'ancients' to living memory.