Messalla
12. M.
Valerius Messalla, M. F., consul in A. D. 20, moved at the first meeting of the senate under Tiberius, in A. D. 14, that the oath to the emperor (
sacramentum) should for the future be repeated annually instead of at intervals of five or ten years (
Tac. Ann. 1.8,
3.2; Fasti.)