Messalla

When he published them he placed at the very beginning the well-known line that recalled Messalla's own line:

Vergil Frank, Tenney, 1876-1939 1922

He had assumed he was going to meet Pompey privately, but instead he discovered several other senators with their attendants already waiting, including the new consuls, Pupius Piso and Valerius Messalla.

CONSPIRATA ROBERT HARRIS 2010

It may have something to do with the fact that his long-standing friend and protector Messalla died in that year.

Ovid Sam Jordison 2005

It may have something to do with the fact that his long-standing friend and protector Messalla died in that year.

Archive 2005-09-01 Sam Jordison 2005

Our friend Messalla and his fellow candidate, Domitius Calvinus, have been very liberal to the people.

The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order Marcus Tullius Cicero

Later on the consul Messalla in the senate asked Pompey his opinion as to the sacrilege and the bill that had been published.

The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order Marcus Tullius Cicero

You bid me finish the poem in his honour which I had begun; and although I have been diverted from it by business, and still more by my feelings, yet, since Cæsar knows that I did begin something, I will return to my design, and will complete in these leisure days of the "supplications," [680] during which I greatly rejoice that our friend Messalla and the rest are at last relieved from worry.

The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order Marcus Tullius Cicero

Messalla -- and that is inseparable from the acquittal of the others.

The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order Marcus Tullius Cicero

I can see that our friend Messalla will be consul, if by means of an _interrex_, without any prosecution, if by that of a dictator, without danger of conviction.

The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order Marcus Tullius Cicero

September 2nd, and his rivals Domitius and Messalla got the start of him.

The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order Marcus Tullius Cicero