In 48 Ad, Claudius went to Ostia to stop by the new harbor he was developing and was educated although there that Messalina had gone so significantly as to marry her most up-to-date lover, Senator Gaius Silius in Rome. Messalina wins the debate by demonstrating that their sins had been considerably even worse than hers and suggests that they repent of their personal wickedness before reproaching her as they had performed.