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Lucius Valerius Messalla Volesus

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Author: Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Volesus

also: Messalla Volesus

Proconsul of Asia under Augustus, infamous for beheading three hundred men in a day and gloating 'O what a kingly deed!'

Reading notes

On Anger §2.5 Volesus
Proconsul of Asia under Augustus who beheaded three hundred men in a day and boasted of it in Greek — cruelty beyond mere anger.

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