Lucius Aurelius Cotta (Consul 65 BC)
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 .
literature
- Hans Georg Gundel : Aurelius I. 13. In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 1, Stuttgart 1964, Col. 765.
Remarks
- ^ Cassius Dio 37, April 9.
- ^ Suetonius, Caesar 79, 3.
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SURNAME | Aurelius Cotta, Lucius |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cotta, Lucius Aurelius |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Roman politician, consul 65 BC Chr. |
DATE OF BIRTH | before 109 BC Chr. |
DATE OF DEATH | after 44 BC Chr. |