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With an imposing force he returned to the Roman Forum, and at the foot of the Capitoline Hill encountered Galba, who, alarmed by rather vague rumors of treachery, was making his way through a dense crowd of wandering citizens towards the barracks of the guard.

The cohort that was on duty at the Palatine, which had accompanied the Emperor, instantly deserted him.

Galba, his newly adopted son Piso and others were brutally murdered by the Praetorians.

The brief struggle over, Otho returned in triumph to the camp, and on the same day was duly invested by the senators with the name of Augustus, the tribunician power and the other dignities belonging to the principate.