Otho

A lot can be said about Otho’s determination and appreciation for life, and eventually, the afterlife.

After Mother accesses some mysterious tarot cards from Earth, the blood flow is reversed and her android "fuel" goes into Otho, giving him super-strength.

Otho was eventually found when the Ark crashed but rather than kill him, Marcus wanted to use him as cannon fodder against Mother in her Necromancer mode.

After a vain attempt to conciliate Vitellius by the offer of a share in the Empire, Otho, with unexpected vigor, prepared for war.

Agricola's mother was murdered on her estate in Liguria by Otho's marauding fleet.

As evidenced by his new name, Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus, his sponsor for citizenship was Lucius Mestrius Florus, a Roman of consular status whom Plutarch also used as a historical source for his Life of Otho.

At the same time the fears of the more sober and respectable citizens were allayed by Otho's liberal professions of his intention to govern equitably, and by his judicious clemency towards Marius Celsus, consul-designate, a devoted adherent of Galba.

At the same time Vitellius and his armies in Germania had risen in revolt and prepared to march on Rome, intent on overthrowing Otho.

But the rashness of the Emperor's brother Titianus and of Proculus, prefect of the Praetorian Guards, added to Otho's feverish impatience, overruled all opposition, and an immediate advance was decided upon.

Decline and fall Otho He accepted, or appeared to accept, the cognomen of Nero conferred upon him by the shouts of the populace, whom his comparative youth and the effeminacy of his appearance reminded of their lost favourite.

Galba, Otho and Vitellius: Careers and Controversies (Spudasmata: Studien zur Klassichen Philologie und ihren Grenzgebieten) by Charles L. Murison p15 In the resulting battle Vindex was defeated and committed suicide.

It can be found in the appendix to Plutarch’s Parallel Lives as well as in various Moralia manuscripts, most prominently in Maximus Planudes’s edition where Galba and Otho appear as “Opera” XXV and XXVI.

It was said that the common Roman hailed Otho as Nero himself.

Just as he had come to power, many Romans learned to respect Otho in his death.

Of these, only the Lives of Galba and Otho survive.

Otho had owed his own success to the resentment felt by the Praetorian guards and the rest of the army at Galba's refusal to pay the promised gold to the ones who supported his accession to the throne.

Otho meanwhile committed suicide after being defeated by Vitellius.

Otho remained in Lusitania for the next ten years, administering the province with a moderation unusual at the time.

Otho's ashes were placed within a modest monument.

Otho's first acts as Emperor showed that he was not unmindful of these facts.