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parent condefcenfion only increafed their violence. A 
length Ali, the fon-in-law and ne of | Mahom met, who 
had a confidetable party among the infu urgents, was induced 
to ufe his influence for the reftoration of tr anquillity, which 
mies. But mercy had fled from their hearts, and 
Oihaas aalicae the Koran in his bofom, waited to receive 
ea pooecy Mahomet feized him by the beard, and plunged 
ord into his breaft. Others pierced his body in dif- 
fea parts, and he expired under multiplied wounds. For 
three days his corpfe lay unburied, and expofed to the in- 
eke of the multitude; and at length it was without cere- 
thrown into a hole. This happened in a year 2 52 
and in the twelfth year of the caliph’s rei He w 
man of a majeftic figure, and venerable nae pure in ie 
morals, a_mind at all adapted to the 
Ny the founder of the Ottoman 
dyn ie was che fon of Orthogrul, a Turkman or Oguzian 
chieftain, who had entered into the fervice of Aladin, fultan 
of Iconium, and had eftablifhed himfelf with his tribe at 
Surgut, on the banks of the ay gr Aladin had made 
fal 
of the rapid and deftructive growth of the moniter. Phe 
tives and volunteers. Inftead 
maintained the moft ufeful and defenfible rete fortified the 
towns and caftles, which he had firft pillaged, and renounced 
the paftoral life for the baths and lice of his infant 
eapital.’’ In the courfe of many years of active fervice, he 
made himfelf mafter of the whole of Bithynia ; ; and though 
glory, oe the fevere come of old age and infirmities. 
died in 1326, in the 6gth year of his 
tran{cribed or compofed 
royal teftament of ia lat count Is = gms and modera- 
. on. Univer. ibbon 
_OTHO, M. Sauvios in Brearoply 7y, 2 Roman emperor, 
was defcended from ac amily ; and in the beginning 
of ‘the reign of Nero, « or Bor the year 55, he was diftin- 
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by a divorce from her hufband and a marriage with her 
lover. Otho, from whatever pile was continually ex- 
tolling to the emperor, in the m tu 
ducted himfelf with great credit, acquired a new ch 
and was diftinguifhed for the u 
his adminiftration. He had n his pro- 
vince, when, on the declaration of Galba againft dle tyranny 
of Nero A. D. 68, he was the firft ca | in office who 
joined = partys probably with a view to the fucceflion of 
the e When this 
pofed to him by Vinius, whofe rai sare O- ho was engaged 
to marry, but Galba was not of t 
time. 
e€ was 
have retreated, but the foldiers, placing him ina chair, car- 
ried him with fwords drawn to the camp, w the whole 
body joined in the falutation. The revolt fpread to the 
other troops, and Cralba ene to the forum, was 
One of his firft a&ts 
n the defignated 
conful under Galba, am friends. He 
facrificed to the public a Tigellinus, the hated minifter 
of Nero; but on the memory of that bloody emperor he 
fhewed a difpofition to ese honours. 
a fituation of great danger, and was glad to cultivate popu- 
larity all cla e people, for a ftorm appeared 
1 
Ips. ow in the greateit 
confternation at the profpe& of the auoraach ag civil war. 
‘The 
