Messalina is denounced 2

non solum rumor interea

Meanwhile, there was not only a rumour,

sed undique nuntii ad Messalinam contendunt

but from all sides messengers hurried to Messalina.

qui Claudium omnia cognovisse et venire promptum ultioni adferrent

to report that Claudius knew everything and was coming, ready for revenge

igitur Messalina Lucullianos in hortos, Silius dissimulando metui ad forum digrediuntur

Therefore, Messalina and silius went in separate directions, she to the gardens of Lucullus, he to the forum to hide his fear

illa tame, quamquam res adversae consilium eximerent

she, however, although misfortune took away her ability to plans,

ire obviam et aspici a marito statim constituit, quod saepe ei fuerat subsidium

immediately decided to go meet and be seen by her husband, which had often been a salvation to her

misitque ut Britannicus et Octavia in complexum patris irent.

And she sent orders that Britannicus and Octavia should go to the embraces of their father

atque interim, tribus omnino comitantibus - tam repens erat solitudo

And meanwhile, with only the 3 people in her company, so sudden was her desertion,

- postquam per urbem pedibus ivit, vehiculo quo purgamenta hortorum eripiuntur, Ostiensem viam intrat

after she went through he city on foot, she entered the road to Ostia in a cart, by which the refuse of the gardens was taken away.

nullum misercordiam civibus commovit quia flagitorum deformitas praevalabat

She aroused no pity from the citizens because her appaling nature of her crime prevailed