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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Smith, William, ed. (1870). "Messalla (2)". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology . Vol. 2. p. 1050.
Marcus Valerius Messalla was a Roman Republic consul in 226 BC.
Messalla was probably the son of Manius Valerius Maximus Corvinus Messalla. His year of office was employed in organising a general levy of the Italian nations against an expected invasion of the Gauls from both sides of the Alps (Zonar, viii. 19; Oros. iv. 13; Fasti; comp. Polyb. ii. 23).
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Smith, William, ed. (1870). "Messalla (2)". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology . Vol. 2. p. 1050.