The Man Who Would Outlast Them Both

Oles Vitelius was born in 1580, to a family either descended from ancient Latin nobility or common stock nobodies. Otho convinced himself that he had really gotten on Galba's good side with all of these gestures and set about trying to convince Galba to adopt him. When he learned Galba had chosen the more stable Lucius Calpurnius Piso instead, a blindsided Otho flew into such a rage that he assassinated Galba less than a week later.