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Otho (/ ˈ oʊ θ oʊ / OH-tho; born Marcus Salvius Otho; 28 April 32 – 16 April 69) was Roman emperor, ruling for three months from 15 January to 16 April 69. He was the second emperor of the Year of the Four Emperors .
Suetonius describes Otho's family, and their history and nobility. And just as Suetonius had done with prior caesars, he includes a list of omens regarding Otho's reign and suicide. Suetonius spends most of the book describing the ascension of Otho, his suicide, and the other usual topics.
Marcus Salvius Otho was a member to the Salvia gens. His father is described by Suetonius as an Eques (knight) of Etruscan descent whose ancestors came from Ferentinum and were descended from the princes of Etruria. His mother is not named and stated as being of lowly origin, [1] and may not even have been freeborn. [2]
The gens Suetonia was a minor plebeian family at ancient Rome.Members of this gens are first mentioned in the reign of Claudius, under whom the general Gaius Suetonius Paulinus, consul in AD 66, won his first military victories; but the family is perhaps best known for the historian Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, who flourished toward the beginning of the second century.
In 69, during the year of civil wars that followed the death of Nero (see Year of Four Emperors), he was one of Otho's senior generals and military advisors. [16] He and Aulus Marius Celsus defeated Aulus Caecina Alienus, one of Vitellius's generals, near Cremona, but Suetonius would not allow his men to follow up their advantage and was accused of treachery as a result. [17]
Bust of Emperor Otho from the 16th or 17th century. The gens Salvia was a minor plebeian Roman family of the late Republic , which came to prominence under the early Empire . The first of the family known to have held public office at Rome was Publius Salvius Aper, praetorian prefect in 2 BC.
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Latin: [ˈɡaːiʊs sweːˈtoːniʊs traŋˈkᶣɪlːʊs]), commonly referred to as Suetonius (/ s w ɪ ˈ t oʊ n i ə s / swih-TOH-nee-əs; c. AD 69 – after AD 122), [2] was a Roman historian who wrote during the early Imperial era of the Roman Empire.
Albia Terentia [Note 1] was the mother of the Roman Emperor Otho. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] She was part of the Gens Terentia , and is described as being "of an illustrious line". [ 3 ] Albia Terentia was married to Lucius Salvius Otho .