Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—M

Messalina

Wife of the Emperor Claudius of Rome. Her name has become a byword for lasciviousness and incontinency. Catherine II. of Russia is called The Modern Messalina (1729-1796). (See Marozia.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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