MessalinaWife 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 More on Messalina from Infoplease:
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