place
Messana
also: Messanam
City on the Sicilian strait (modern Messina), first taken by Valerius Corvinus; source of the cognomen Messala.
Reading notes
- On the Shortness of Life §13.5 Messana
City on the Sicilian strait (modern Messina), captured early in the First Punic War.
- Natural Questions §3.26.7 Messana
City on the Sicilian side of the strait, near which the sea threw up dung-like matter.