Otho
- I L. Roscius Otho, a knight, a friend of Cicero, and author of the law that the knights should occupy the first fourteen seats in the theatre next to the orchestra, Cic. Mur. 19, 40; cf. Ascon. ad Cornel. p. 79 Orell.—Hence, sic libitum vano, qui nos distinxit, Othoni, Juv. 3, 159.—
- II M. Salvius Otho, a Roman emperor, whose biography is given by Suetonius: mollis Otho, Mart. 6, 32, 2; Juv. 2, 99.—Hence,
- B Ŏthōnĭānus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to the emperor Otho, Othonian: Othoniani duces, of the emperor Otho, Tac. H. 2, 24: partes, id. ib. 2, 33.
- 1. L. Roscius ~, volkstribuun in 67 v. Chr.; legde door een wet de census voor de ridders vast op
- 400. 000 sestertiën en wees de ridders de eerste 14 rijen zitplaatsen in het amfitheater toe;
- 2. M. Salvius ~, Rom. keizer in het driekeizerjaar (69 n. Chr.); — adj. Othōniānus, a, um.
Sacrista... faciebat suum Otho, et providebat ipsis Canonicis in victu et vestitu.Vide Oto.
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…memoria est, HS c x v. omnia scilicet nunc minoris. sed accedit cupiditas, in qua praeter Othonem non puto nos ullum adversarium habituros. sed eum ipsum tu poteris movere, facilius etiam si Canum haberes .…
Cicero, Epistulae ad Atticum
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…brevioribus diebus cotidie respondebant tempori tabellam, et erat aliquid, Silius, Drusus, alia quaedam. nunc nisi Otho exstitisset, quod scriberemus non erat ; ; id ; ipsum dilatum est. tamen adlevor cum loquor…
Cicero, Epistulae ad Atticum
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…aliud nostra, ut praeconi subiciantur. id nisi fit, excludemur. sin ad tabulam venimus, vincemus facultates Othonis nostra cupiditate. nam quod ad me de Lentulo scribis, non est in eo. Faberiana modo res certa…
Cicero, Epistulae ad Atticum
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…fano dederis. multa mihi εἰς ἀποθέωσιν in mentem veniunt, sed loco valde opus est. qua re etiam Othonem vide. Scr. Asturae prid. Non. Mai. a. . CICERO ATTICO SAL. non dubito…
Cicero, Epistulae ad Atticum
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…ita valde probare arbitrer. sed ferendus tibi in hoc meus error. ferendus immo vero etiam adiuvandus. de Othone diffido, fortasse quia cupio. sed tamen maior etiam res est quam facultates nostrae, praesertim adversario et cupido…
Cicero, Epistulae ad Atticum
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…me posse solvere, id est locum qualem volo invenero. heredes Scapulae si istos hortos, ut scribis tibi Othonem dixisse, partibus quattuor factis liceri cogitant, nihil est scilicet emptori loci ; sin venibunt, quid fieri possit…
Cicero, Epistulae ad Atticum
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…delectationes alias multas habere possumus, ludis tamen oblectamur et ducimur, quid tu admirere de multitudine indocta L. Otho, vir fortis, meus necessarius, equestri ordini restituit non solum dignitatem sed etiam voluptatem. itaque lex haec…
Cicero, pro Murena
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…scripsisti tamen nescio quid de Clodia. ubi ergo ea est aut quando ventura placet mihi res sic ut secundum Othonem nihil magis. sed neque hanc vendituram puto delectatur enim et copiosa est, et illud alterum quam sit difficile…
Cicero, Epistulae ad Atticum
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…meo consilio. obsecro abiciamus ista et semiliberi saltem simus ; quod adsequemur et tacendo et latendo. sed adgredere Othonem, ut scribis. confice, mi Attice, istam rem. nihil enim aliud reperio ubi et in foro…
Cicero, Epistulae ad Atticum
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…habet res difficultatem. te ad me venire uterque nostrum cupit ; sed ista res nullo modo relinquenda est. Othonem quod speras posse vinci sane bene narras. de aestimatione, ut scribis, cum agere coeperimus ; etsi nihil…
Cicero, Epistulae ad Atticum
A tribune of the plebs in B.C. 67, when he carried the law (lex Roscia) which gave to the equites a special place at the public spectacles, in fourteen rows or seats (in quattuordecim gradibus sive ordinibus), next to the place of the senators, which was in the orchestra. This law was very unpopular; and in Cicero's consulship (B.C. 63) there was such a riot occasioned by the obnoxious measure that it required all his eloquence to allay the agitation (Vell. Paterc. ii. 32; Ad Att. ii. 1).
A Roman emperor from Jan. 15 to April 16, A.D. 69, who was born in 32. He was one of the companions of Nero in his debaucheries; but when the emperor took possession of his wife, the beautiful but profligate Poppaea Sabina, Otho was sent as governor to Lusitania, which he administered with credit during the last ten years of Nero's life. Otho attached himself to Galba, when he revolted against Nero, in the hope of being adopted by him, and succeeding to the Empire. But when Galba adopted L. Piso, on the tenth of January, 69, Otho formed a conspiracy against Galba, and was proclaimed emperor by the soldiers at Rome, who put Galba to death. Meantime, Vitellius had been proclaimed emperor at Cologne by the German troops on the third of January. When this news reached Otho, he marched into the north of Italy to oppose the generals of Vitellius. He at first won several victories over Caecina, the general of Vitellius, but his army was defeated by Caecina and Valens in a decisive battle near Bedriacum, whereupon he put an end to his own life at Brixellum, in the thirty-seventh year of his age. His life is given by Suetonius and Plutarch.