. A history of Rome with a map of Italy and ample chronological table . STATUE OP COIN OF CLAUDIUS AND AORirPINA, CHAPTEH XIV. FROM THE DEATH OF NERO TO THAT OF DOMITIAN. 68 TO 96. Servius Galha, on })eing informed that he had been pro-claimed emperor, and that the choice was sanctioned bythe senate, hastened to Rome, accompanied by SalviusOtJto, the contemptible husband of Poppfea Sabina. Thesoldiers to whom he owed the throne expected to berichly rewarded by him; but in this they were dis-appointed ; and as he also attempted to restore disciplineamong them, Salvius Otho
. A history of Rome with a map of Italy and ample chronological table . STATUE OP COIN OF CLAUDIUS AND AORirPINA, CHAPTEH XIV. FROM THE DEATH OF NERO TO THAT OF DOMITIAN. 68 TO 96. Servius Galha, on })eing informed that he had been pro-claimed emperor, and that the choice was sanctioned bythe senate, hastened to Rome, accompanied by SalviusOtJto, the contemptible husband of Poppfea Sabina. Thesoldiers to whom he owed the throne expected to berichly rewarded by him; but in this they were dis-appointed ; and as he also attempted to restore disciplineamong them, Salvius Otho fonned a conspiracy againsthim, and he was murdered while crossing the Forum, atthe beginning of 69, after a reign of scarcely eightmonths; and his son, who had been looked upon as hissuccessor, was likewise killed. The praetorians now proclaimed Salvius Otho, andtheir choice was again sanctioned by the senate. Hebegan his reign by punishing some of the persons whohad made themselves most obnoxious dui-ing the reign ofNero. But he had scarcely entered upon his functions,when he was
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