Otho
From LSJ
πολλὰ δ' ἄναντα κάταντα πάραντά τε δόχμιά τ' ἦλθον → and ever upward, downward, sideward, and aslant they went
English > Greek (Woodhouse)
Ὄθων, -ωνος, ὁ.
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
Ŏtho: ōnis, m., = Ὄθων,
I a Roman surname.
I L. Roscius Otho, a knight, a friend of Cicero, and author of the law that the knights should occupy the first fourteen seats in the theatre next to the orchestra, Cic. Mur. 19, 40; cf. Ascon. ad Cornel. p. 79 Orell.—Hence, sic libitum vano, qui nos distinxit, Othoni, Juv. 3, 159.—
II M. Salvius Otho, a Roman emperor, whose biography is given by Suetonius: mollis Otho, Mart. 6, 32, 2; Juv. 2, 99.—Hence,
B Ŏthōnĭānus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to the emperor Otho, Othonian: Othoniani duces, of the emperor Otho, Tac. H. 2, 24: partes, id. ib. 2, 33.
