The Project Gutenberg EBook of M. Salvius Otho (Otho), by C. Suetonius TranquillusThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it,give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online atwww.gutenberg.netTitle: M. Salvius Otho (Otho) The Lives Of The Twelve Caesars, Volume 8.Author: C. Suetonius TranquillusRelease Date: December 14, 2004 [EBook #6393]Language: English*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK M. SALVIUS OTHO ***Produced by Tapio Riikonen and David WidgerTHE LIVES OF THE TWELVE CAESARS By C. Suetonius Tranquillus;To which are added,HIS LIVES OF THE GRAMMARIANS, RHETORICIANS, AND POETS. The Translation of Alexander Thomson, M.D. revised and corrected by T.Forester, Esq., A.M.A. SALVIUS OTHO.(416)I. The ancestors of Otho were originally of the town of Ferentum, of an ancient and honourable family, and, indeed, one ofthe most considerable in Etruria. His grandfather, M. Salvius Otho (whose father was a Roman knight, but his mother ofmean extraction, for it is not certain whether she was free-born), by the favour of Livia Augusta, in whose house he hadhis education, was made a senator, but never rose higher than the praetorship. His father, Lucius Otho, was by ...
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