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Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
I, chapter 78 (search)
By similar bounty Otho sought to win the affections of the
cities and provinces. He bestowed on the colonies of Hispalis and Emerita some
additional families, on the entire people of the Lingones the privileges of
Roman citizenship; to the province of Bætica
he joined the states of Mauritania, and granted
to Cappadocia and Africa new
rights, more for display than for permanent utility. In the midst of these
measures, which may find an excuse in the urgency of the crisis and the
anxieties which pressed upon him, he still did not forget his old amours,
and by a decree of the Senate restored the statues of Poppæa. It is
even believed that he thought of celebrating the memory of Nero in the hope
of winning the populace, and persons were found to exhibit statues of that
Prince. There were days on which the people and the soldiers greeted him
with shouts of Nero Otho, as if they were heaping on him new distinction and
honour. Otho himself wavered in suspense, afraid to f
Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
II, chapter 6 (search)