Ŏtho, ōnis, m., = Ὄθων, 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.