Otho, L. Roscius
A tribune of the plebs in B.C. 67, when he carried the law (
lex Roscia) which
gave to the
equites a special place at the public spectacles, in fourteen
rows or seats (
in quattuordecim gradibus sive ordinibus), next to the
place of the senators, which was in the orchestra. This law was very unpopular; and in
Cicero's consulship (B.C. 63) there was such a riot occasioned by the obnoxious measure that
it required all his eloquence to allay the agitation (Vell. Paterc. ii. 32;
Ad
Att. ii. 1).