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De Morte Othonis, Epig. 32.

Whiles yet Bellona doubts the warlike doom,
And softer Otho might have overcome,

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He stops the costly charge of blood in War,
And by his sword fals his own murderer.
He liv'd a Cato, more than Cæsar too,
Yet dying, how like Otho he did doe?