Lucius Aurelius Cotta (Consul 65 BC)

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Lucius Aurelius Cotta was a politician of the late Roman Republic .

The brother of Gaius and Marcus Aurelius Cotta , consuls from 75 and 74 BC. BC, was in the year 70 BC. BC Praetor . In this office he ensured a reform of the jury through the lex Aurelia iudiciaria .

In 66 BC Together with Lucius Manlius Torquatus, he successfully indicted the consuls-designate of the following year for electoral fraud and became consul himself for the year 65 BC. In the following year he became censor , but had to give up the office prematurely after a conflict with the tribunes of the people .

Cotta still lived in 44 BC. BC, in which he as Quindecimvir sacris faciundis supposedly wanted to demand the proclamation of Caesar as king for the Parthian War .

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  1. ^ Cassius Dio 37, April 9.
  2. ^ Suetonius, Caesar 79, 3.