Marcus Valerius Messalla served as prefect of the fleet in Sicily in 210 BC, the ninth year of the Second Punic War, carried out a successful raid on the countryside around
Utica. He was nominated dictator, but his appointment was annulled. Messalla was praetor ''peregrinus'' in 194 BC, and
Roman consul
A consul held the highest elected political office of the Roman Republic ( to 27 BC), and ancient Romans considered the consulship the second-highest level of the ''cursus honorum'' (an ascending sequence of public offices to which politic ...
for 188 BC, together with
Gaius Livius Salinator[Livy, xxvii. 5, xxxiv 54, 55, xxxviii. 35, 42, xli. 22, xlii. 28.]
References
Roman patricians
2nd-century BC Roman consuls
Marcus
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