person
Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus
Messalla Corvinus
also: Messalla
Distinguished orator, soldier, and literary patron, father of Messalinus and Cotta Maximus; Ovid recalls him as the patron of his early career.
Reading notes
- Letters from the Black Sea §1.7 Nor did your father
Messalla Corvinus, the great orator and literary patron who fostered Ovid's early career; father of Messalinus and Cotta Maximus.