1When the day had been spent in crimes, the last of its evils was rejoicing. 1The urban praetor summons the senate, the other magistrates vie in flattery, the senators come running: tribunician power is decreed to Otho, and the name of Augustus and all the honours of the emperors, as everyone strove to blot out the taunts and insults which, hurled indiscriminately, no one noticed had stuck in his mind; 1whether he had dismissed his grievances or postponed them remained uncertain, because of the shortness of his reign. 1Otho, borne through the forum, still bloody, over the heaps of the fallen, to the Capitol and thence to the Palatium, allowed the bodies to be given up for burial and cremation.
1Piso was laid out by his wife Verania and his brother Scribonianus, Titus Vinius by his daughter Crispina, after they had searched for and bought back the heads, which the killers had kept for sale.