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The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 08: Otho

Suetonius, 69?-122?; Forester, Thomas [Editor]; Thomson, Alexander, M.D. [Translator]· 2 chapters· 4,533 words

I. The ancestors of Otho were originally of the town of Ferentum, of an ancient and honourable family, and, indeed, one of the most considerable in Etruria. His grandfather, M. Salvius Otho (whose father was a Roman knight, but his mother of mean extraction, for it is not cert...

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1. Chapter 1

I. The ancestors of Otho were originally of the town of Ferentum, of an ancient and honourable family, and, indeed, one of the most considerable in Etruria. His grandfather, M....

2. Chapter 2

[686] Lenis was a name of similar signification with that of Tranquillus, borne by his son, the author of the present work. We find from Tacitus, that there was, among Otho's ge...