Digital Prosopography of the Roman Republic

AURE1648 L. Aurelius (99) Cotta

Relationships

son of
L. Aurelius (98) L.? f. C. n. Cotta (cos. 144) (Zmeskal 2009) Expand

Lucil. XI 413

father of
? L. Aurelius (100) Cotta (pr. 95) (Zmeskal 2009)

Career

  • Praetor before 122 (Brennan 2000) Expand
    • p. 741, footnote 160 (Brennan 2000)
  • Consul 119 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Fast. Ant., Degrassi 162f. (L. Caecili. Met[el.], L. Au[reli. Cotta]); Obseq. 34; Chr. 354 (Metello et Cotta), so also Fast. Hyd., and Chr. Pasc.; Cassiod.; on Cotta, Plut. Mar. 4.2; on Metellus, App. Illyr. 11; and on his filiation, Act. Tr. for 117. See Degrassi 127, 472f. The Consuls opposed Marius' law (see Tribunes of the Plebs), and were threatened with imprisonment when they had the Senate summon him before it (Plut. Mar. 4.2-3). Metellus, perhaps with the aid of his colleague, campaigned against the Illyrian Segestani and the Dalmatians (App. Illyr. 10-11; Liv. Per. 62; Eutrop. 4.23.2). (Broughton MRR I)
    • See MRR 1.525, 527, 529. Analysis of the confused notices in Appian Illyr. 10 and 11, and Eutropius 4.20, with consideration of the special geographical difficulties of campaigning in Dalmatia and Illyricum, leads M. G. Morgan to propose as probable solutions: (1) that Metellus Delmaticus campaigned only against the Delmatae, making Salona his base, and only in 119 and 118, and might have celebrated his triumph in 118 instead of 117, then proceeding to restore the temple of Castor and Pollux de manubiis; and (2) that the expedition of the consul of 119, L. Aurelius Cotta, and a Metellus against the Segestani involved only the one consul and a different Metellus, the praetorius Diadematus, as his legatus (Athenaeum 49, 1971, 271-301, esp. 289-294). In MRR 1.525, refer the Delmatae to Metellus and the Segestani to Cotta; in 1.526, insert Metellus Diadematus as legatus or pro praetore, with references to App. Illyr. 10; and in 1.527 and 529 give 118 or 117 as possible dates for the triumph of Delmaticus. (Broughton MRR III)
    • An incomplete milestone, found at Vulci, gives the name of an Aurelius Cotta, consul (.. ]AV[...|[C]otta Co[s]), and the distance from Rome. It points to the builder of the Via Aurelia and must be earlier than the date of its extension in the Via Aurelia Scauri, in 109. The consul of 144, or perhaps L. Aurelius Cotta (99). Cos. 119, may be meant. See A. Degrassi, Scritti vari 3.33-34; cf. E. Fentress, Via Aurelia, Via Aemilia, PBSR 52, 1984, 72-76. (Broughton MRR III)

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