Plutarch's Lives

Otho — Minor Figures

6 figures from Plutarch's Lives who appear only briefly. Each keeps their own page; this one gathers them so they can be read together.

Cocceius

Otho's nephew · first appears Otho

  • Otho · elder kin: Otho “Then he sent for Cocceius, his brother's son, who was yet a boy”
  • Otho · with Otho “this had been his reason for delaying to adopt him, which he had meant to do, as his son”

Pollio

prefect · first appears Otho

  • Otho · with Otho “The soldiers were displeased with Pollio, one of their two prefects, who bade them immediately swear allegiance to Vitellius”

Secundus

rhetorician and secretary · first appears Otho

  • Otho · employer: Otho “This is the account Secundus the rhetorician, who was his secretary, gave of the matter”

Titianus

Otho's brother · first appears Otho

  • Otho · siblings with Otho “He therefore sent his brother Titianus, with Proculus, the prefect of the guards, to the army”

Suetonius Paulinus

general · first appears Otho

  • Otho · friends with Marius Celsus “Celsus and Paulinus had the title of friends and counselors, but not the least authority or power”

Spurina

general · first appears Otho

  • Otho · with Annius Gallus “Annius Gallus marched to join Spurina at Placentia”

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