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Nominally Messalina, serving as a prostitute under the pseudonym of Lisisca (literally, 'Messalina in Lisica's booth'), deriving from accounts such as this one of Juvenal's:
- Then look at those who rival the Gods, and hear what Claudius endured. As soon as his wife perceived that her husband was asleep, this august harlot was shameless enough to prefer a common mat to the imperial couch. Assuming night-cowl, and attended by a single maid, she issued forth; then, having concealed her raven locks under a light-coloured peruque, she took her place in a brothel reeking with long-used coverlets. Entering an empty cell reserved for herself, she there took her stand, under the feigned name of Lycisca, her nipples bare and gilded, and exposed to view the womb that bore thee, O nobly-born Britannicus! Here she graciously received all comers, asking from each his fee; and when at length the keeper dismissed his girls, she remained to the very last before closing her cell, and with passion still raging hot within her went sorrowfully away. Then exhausted by men but unsatisfied, with soiled cheeks, and begrimed with the smoke of lamps, she took back to the imperial pillow all the odours of the stews.
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| Creator/Artist | ||
|---|---|---|
| Name | Carracci, Agostino | |
| Date of birth/death | 1557-08-16 | 1602-03-22 |
| Location of birth/death | Bologna | Parma |
