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en-wikipedia-org-7034		Otho - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	3231	428	67	Marcus Otho Caesar Augustus (/ˈoʊθoʊ/; born Marcus Salvius Otho; 28 April 32 – 16 April 69) was Roman emperor for three months, from 15 January to 16 April 69. A member of a noble Etruscan family, Otho was initially a friend and courtier of the young emperor Nero until he was effectively banished to the governorship of the remote province of Lusitania in 58 following his wife Poppaea Sabina's affair with Nero. After initial fighting resulted in 40,000 casualties, and a retreat of his forces, Otho committed suicide rather than fight on and Vitellius was proclaimed emperor. His grandfather had been a senator, and Claudius granted Otho's father patrician status.[2][3] Greenhalgh writes that "he was addicted to luxury and pleasure to a degree remarkable even in a Roman". Writing during the reign of the Emperor Domitian (AD 81–96), the Roman poet Martial expressed his admiration for Otho's choice to spare the empire from civil war through sacrificing himself:	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-7034.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-7034.txt