Otho falls at Bedriacum
69 · Event
Beaten by Vitellius's Rhine legions in northern Italy — with his own reinforcements a day's march away — Otho kills himself at dawn to spare Rome further civil war, three months into his reign. The suicide, praised even by his enemies, is the year's one act of grace; his soldiers weep on his pyre, and some follow him.
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