Marcus Valerius Messalla (consul 32 BC)

Marcus Valerius Messalla (born c. 80 BC) was a

suffect consul

in 32 BC.

Biography

Valerius Messalla, a member of the

gens Valeria, was the son of Marcus Valerius Messalla Rufus, who was consul in 53 BC.^[1] In that year, he was appointed a triumvir monetalis.^[2]

Taking no part in the

Marc Antony in Ephesus, following Caesar Octavian's attack on Gaius Sosius and Marcus Antonius.^[3]

Valerius Messalla apparently had no sons of his own. He therefore probably adopted

Broughton, T. Robert S., The Magistrates of the Roman Republic, Vol II (1952)
Syme, Ronald, The Augustan Aristocracy (1986).
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Political offices
Preceded by Gaius Sosius	Roman consul 32 BC (suffect) with Lucius Cornelius	Succeeded by Octavian III Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus