History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians; . Temple of Vesta (Kestoration by Coussin). January, li!» ). Later Yitellius found petitions demanding theprice of blood from 120 persons; he had them all executed. Piso had been emperor four days, Ctesar and Gulbu sevenmonths; Otho was to reign eighty-eight days. ? Tac. Hist., i. 41. Cf. Suetonius and Plutarch, Life of Galba. Dion (I.^liv. 6) says thatmany people perished ^vith Calba, <5vxv^\. It is not probable. ÏHllLE EMPERUK8 iKUM G8 10 U!J ». Jt II.—Otho. Marcus Salv
History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians; . Temple of Vesta (Kestoration by Coussin). January, li!» ). Later Yitellius found petitions demanding theprice of blood from 120 persons; he had them all executed. Piso had been emperor four days, Ctesar and Gulbu sevenmonths; Otho was to reign eighty-eight days. ? Tac. Hist., i. 41. Cf. Suetonius and Plutarch, Life of Galba. Dion (I.^liv. 6) says thatmany people perished ^vith Calba, <5vxv^\. It is not probable. ÏHllLE EMPERUK8 iKUM G8 10 U!J ». Jt II.—Otho. Marcus Salvias Othu, burn iu Rome, Aj^ril 2Sth, 32 , thedescendant of an old Etruscan family of Ferentinum, came topower with a very bad re^jutation. The lower classes thoughtthey had another Xero, and saluted him by that princes name,whose statues he allowed to be set up again, and whose intendantshe restored to office, at the same time appropriating 50,000,000sesterces to finish the Golden House. As he hud killed Galba,. Ruins of the Theatre of Fereiitiiuim. he found it necessary to honour the memory of him whom heseemed to have avenged. He had behaved with moderation inLusitania for ten years, and at Eome his first acts Avere praise-worthy. He did, indeed, allow the praetorians to choose theirprefects, and to give Sabinus, the brother of Vespasian, the pre-fectiue of Rome, in other words, to lay hands on the civil he checked their zeal for massacre and pillage, and gave upto them only the three ministers of his predecessor. They wishedto mm-der Marius C^elsus, consul-elect and one of Galbas mostzealous partisans. Otho, in order to save him, feigned great wrathand had him loaded with chains ; a fcAV days after he gave him YVl 572 TUE CJiSARS A>D TUE ELAVll, 14 TO 96 an important command, and nnmbered him among his dearestfriends. The soldiers demanded the suppression of the tax paidby them to the centurions for furloughs ; these dues he retained,but had them p
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