ALBIA TERENTIA OTHONIS MATER. VIII. The Emperor Otho having had no Wife in legitimate marriage. Suetonius writes that seeing a bad success in his affairs, and elsewhere, the party of Vitellius, his Victorious Enemy, resolved to kill himself, and before executing this bold design, he wrote two letters of consolation, one a his, Sister, and the other to Statilia Messallina, the former wife of Nero, to whom he intended to marry. This is why we have placed here the portrait of Albia Terentia her Mother, Virtuous Woman

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