A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. By various writers. Ed. by William Smith. Illustrated by numerous engravings on wood.

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one of the royal judges, was put to death by 18). This law soon became very unpopular; the
Cailbyses for an unjust sentence, and his skin people, who were excluded from the seats whi:-h
was stripped off and stretched on the judicial they had formerly occupied in common with the
seat which he had occupied. To this same seat, equites, thought themselves insulted; and in
thus covered, Otanes was advanced as his suc- Cicero's consulship (B. C. 63) there was such a riot
cessor, and was compelled to exercise his func- occasioned by the obnoxious measure, that it retions with a constant memento beneath him of his quired all his eloquence to allay the agitation.
father's fate. About B.C. 506, being appointed (Cic. ad Att. ii. 1).
to succeed Megabyzus in the command of the This L. Roscius Otho must not be confounded,
forces on the sea-coast, he took Byzantium, Chal- as he has frequently been, with the L. Roscius who
cedon, Antandrus, and Lamponium, as well as the was praetor in B. C. 49. The latter had the cogislands of Lemnos and Imbros. (Herod. v. 25- nomen of Fabatus [FAsATus]. The Otho spoken
27; Larch. and Schweigh. ad loc.) He was pro- of by Cicero in B. c. 45, may be the same as the
bably the same Otanes who is mentioned as a son- tribune. (Cic. ad Alt. xiii. 29, comp. xii. 37. ~ 2,
in-law of Dareius Hystaspis, and as one of the 38. ~ 4, 42. ~ 1.)
generals employed against the revolted lonians in OTHO, SA'LVIUS. 1. M. SALVIUS 01THO,
B. C. 499. He joined in defeating the rebels near the grandfather of the emperor Otho, was descended
Ephesus, and, in conjunction with Artaphernes, from an ancient and noble family of the town of
satrap of Sardis, he took Clazomenae, belonging to Ferentinum, in Etruria. His father was a Roman
the Ionians, and the Aeolian town of Cume. He eques, his mother was of low origin, perhaps evens
is not again mentioned by name in I1erodotus, but a freedwoman. Through the influence of Livia
he appears to have taken part in the subsequent Augusta, in whose house he had been brought up,
operations of the war till the final reduction of Otho was made a Roman senator, and eventually
lonia. (Herod. v. 102, 116, 123, vi. 6, &c.) It obtained the praetorship, but was not advanced to
seems doubtful whether we should identify either any higher honour. (Suet. Othlo, 1; Tac. Ilist.
of the two above persons with the father of Pa- ii. 50.)
tiramphes, the charioteer of Xerxes (Herod. vii. 2. L. SALVIUS OTHO, the son of the preceding,
40), or again with the father of Amastris [No. 1]. and the father of the emperor Otho, was connected
(Herod. vii. 61.) [E. E.] on his mother's side with many of the most disOTHO, JU'NIUS. 1. A rhetorician frequently tinguished Roman families, and stood so high in
mentioned by the elder Seneca. He was the the favour of Tiberius and resembled this emperor
author of a work on that branch of rhetoric entitled so strongly in person, that it was supposed by most
colores (respecting the meaning of which see Quintil. that he was his son. He discharged the various
iv. 2. ~ 88). Through the influence of Sejanus, public offices at Rome, was consul suffectus in A. D.
Otho was made a senator, and by due subservience 33 (Suet. Galb. 6), obtained the proconsulate of
to the ruling powers, he obtained the praetorship Africa, and administered the affairs of this province,
in A. D. 22, in which year he is mentioned as one as well as of other extraordinary commands which
of the accusers of C. Silanus, proconsul of Asia. he held, with great diligence and energy. In A.D.
(Senec. Controv. i. 3, Declam. ii. 1, &c.; Tac. Ann. 42 he was sent into illyricum, where the Roman
iii. 66.) army had lately rebelled against Claudius. On
2. Tribune of the plebs, A. D. 37, the last year his arrival he put to death several of the soldiers,
of the reign of Tiberius. He was banished for who had killed their own officers under the pretext
putting his intercessio upon the question of the that they had excited them to rebellion, and who
\reward that was to be given to the accuser of had even been rewarded by Claudius for this very
Acutia. (Tac. Ann. vi. 47.) act. Such a proceeding, though it might have been
OTHO, L. RO'SCIUS, tribune of the plebs necessary to restore the discipline of the troops,
B. C. 67, was a warm supporter of the aristocratical gave great umbrage at the imperial court; but
party. When Gabinius proposed in this year to Otho soon afterwards regained the favour of
bestow upon Pompey the command of the war Claudius by detecting a conspiracy which had
against the pirates, Otho and his colleague L. Tre- been formed against his life by a Roman eques.
bellius were the only two of the tribunes that The senate conferred upon him the extraordinary
offered any decided opposition. It is related that, honour of erecting his statue on the Palatine, and
when Otho, afraid of speaking, after the way in Claudius enrolled him amongo the patricians, adding
which Trebellius had been dealt with [TRE- that he did not wish better children than Otho. By
BELLIUS], held up two of his fingers to show that a his wife Albia Terentina hlie had two sons and one
colleague ought to be given to Pompey, the people set daughter. The elder of his sons, Lucius, bore, says
up such a shout that a crow that was flying over Suetonius, the surname of Titianus, but we may
the forum was stunned, and fell down among them conclude from Tacitus (Ann. xii. 52) and Frontinus
(Dion Cass. xxxvi. 7, 13; Plut. Pomp. 25). In the (Aquaed. 13), that he had the cognomen of Otho
same year Otho proposed and carried the law which as well [see below, No. 3]. His younger son,
gave to the equites and to those persons who pos. Marcus, was the emperor Otho. His daughter was
sessed the equestrian census, a special place at the betrothed, when quite young, to Drusus, the son of
public spectacles, in fourteen rows or seats (in quat- Germanicus. (Suet. Olho, I; Tac. liust. ii. 50.)
tuordecim gradibus sive ordinihus), next to the place 3. L. SALVIUS OTIsO TITIANUS, was the son of
of the senators, which was in the orchestra (Vell. No. 2, and the elder brother of the emperor Otho.
Pat. ii. 32; Liv. Epit. 99; Dion Cass. xxxvi. 25; He was consul A. D. 52, with Faustus Cornelius
Cic. pro Mur. 19; Tac. Ann. xv. 32; Hor. Epod. Sulla (Tac. Ann. xii. 52; Frontin. Aquaed. 13).
iv. 15, Ep. i. 1. 62; Juv. iii. 159, xiv. 324). For In A. D. 63 Titianus was proconsul in Asia, and
those equites who had lost their rank by not pos- had Agricola for his quaestor. It is related to the
sessing the proper equestrian census, there was a honour of the latter that lie was not corrupted by
special place assigned (inter decoctores, Cic. Phil. ii. the example of his superior officer, who indulhtId
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