Lucius Otho

- Yes, date unknown    Has one ancestor and 4 descendants in this family tree.

• Name	Lucius Otho
  Gender	Male
  Death	Yes, date unknown
  Person ID	I668816	Geneagraphie
  Last Modified	7 Nov 2009

  
  

  Father	Marcus Salvius Otho   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F294254	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Terentia Albia   d. Yes, date unknown
  Children	1. Marcus Salvius Otho,   b. 28 Apr 0032   d. 16 Apr 0069 (Age 36 years) + 2. Lucius Salvius Titianus Otho   d. Yes, date unknown   3. NN   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F294253	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	7 Nov 2009

  
  

• Notes

  His close friendship with Tiberius , and physical similarity to him, led to rumours that he was that emperor's son. Otho was renowned for the severity of his command in the regular offices at Rome, the proconsulate of Africa, and several special military commands. He was made Consul Suffect in July 33 . In Illyricum , in 42 , some soldiers supported a rebellion against Claudius by Illyricum's governor, Lucius Arruntius Camillus Scribonianus . Afterwards, they tried to cover the revolt up by killing their officers, who were the revolt's ringleaders. Claudius promoted them for doing so, but Otho had them executed in his presence in the principia for killing their officers. He rebuilt his reputation at court by forcing the slaves of an unnamed knight to betray their master's plot to kill the emperor. As a result, the senate set up his statue in the palace, and Claudius enrolled him among the patricians , praising him in the highest terms and calling him "a man of greater loyalty than I can even pray for in my own children."