AD 160, fl.193) was a Roman senator and suffect consul towards the end of the 2nd century.
Septimius Severus accused Messala of murdering Pertinax and using his influence to convene and order the Senate to install the Senator Didius Julianus as Emperor.
Septimius Severus called the death of Didius Julianus divine providence and ordered the execution of Messala.
[1] An inscription currently in the collection of the Pera Museum in Istanbul names Messala as consular legate of Bithynia et Pontus in the early years of the reign of Septimus Severus (c.
[2] It is possible that he may be the same Silius Messala condemned to death in the year AD 218 by Emperor Elagabalus.