2. Galb. 6), obtained the
proconsulate of Africa, and administered the affairs of this province, as well as of other
extraordinary commands which he held, with great diligence and energy. In A. D. 42 he was sent
into Illyricum, where the Roman army had lately rebelled against Claudius. On his arrival he
put to death several of the soldiers, who had killed their own officers under the pretext that
they had excited them to rebellion, and who had even been rewarded by Claudius for this very
act. Such a proceeding, though it might have been necessary to restore the discipline of the
troops, gave great umbrage at the imperial court; but Otho soon afterwards regained the favour
of Claudius by detecting a conspiracy which had been formed against his life by a Roman eques.
The senate conferred upon him the extraordinary honour of erecting his statue on the Palatine,
and Claudius enrolled him among the patricians, adding that he did not wish better children
than Otho. By his wife Albia Tereutina he had two sons and one daughter. The elder of his
sons, Lucius, bore, says Suetonius, the surname of Titianus, but we may conclude from Tacitus
(Aquaed. 13), that He had the cognomen of Otho as well [see below, No. 3]. His younger
son, Marcus, was the emperor Otho. His daughter was betrothed, when quite young, to Drusus,
the son of Germanicus. (Suet.Otho, 1;