Gaius Silius (lover of Messalina)

"Gaius Sillius and Messalina" by Nikolaus Knüpfer (c. 1650)

Gaius Silius (c. AD 13 – 48) was a Roman senator who was nominated as consul designate for 49 AD, but was executed by the emperor Claudius for his affair with the empress Valeria Messalina.