c. AD 120

Suet. Otho

The Life of Otho

The ancestors of Otho came from an old and illustrious family in the town of Ferentium and were descended from the princes of Etruria. His grandfather Marcus Salvius Otho, whose father was a Roman knight but whose mother was of lowly origin and perhaps not even free-born, became a senator through the influence of Livia Augusta, in whose house he was reared; but did not advance beyond the grade of…Read now

Author: Suetonius
Chapters: 1-13
Translator: J. C. Rolfe

The Life of Otho

Suetonius

translated by J. C. Rolfe