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AURE2026 M. Aurelius (107) M. f. Cotta

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Life Dates

• 120?, birth (Rüpke 2005)
• 67?, expelled from Senate (DPRR Team) Expand

  Memnon 39.3 Jacoby.

Relationships

grandson of

? L. Aurelius (98) L.? f. C. n. Cotta (cos. 144) (Badian 1990)

son of

? Rutilia (38) (daughter of? P. Rutilius (8) (tr. pl. 169)) (DPRR Team)

M. Aurelius (106) Cotta (married to Rutilia (38)) (Zmeskal 2009) Expand

Ascon. Cornel. 67C

brother of

C. Aurelius (96) M. f. Cotta (cos. 75) (Zmeskal 2009) Expand

Asc. Cornel. 67C

L. Aurelius (102) M. f. Cotta (cos. 65) (Zmeskal 2009) Expand

Asc. Cornel. 67C

father of

M. Aurelius (108) Cotta Cotta (son of M. Aurelius (107) M. f. Cotta (cos. 74)) (Zmeskal 2009) Expand

Dio XXXVI 40, Val. Max. V 4.4

Career

• Propraetor? 80 Hispania (Broughton MRR II) Expand
  • Propraetor (Plut. Sert. 12.3). Defeated at sea near Mellaria by Sertorius (Plut.). (Broughton MRR II)
• Praetor before 76 (Broughton MRR II) Expand
  • 1 The latest date possible under the Cornelian law. (Broughton MRR II)
  • p. 749 (Brennan 2000)
• Augur? 77 to after 67 (Rüpke 2005)
• Consul 74 (Broughton MRR II) Expand
  • CIL 12.2.740, and 954; SIG³ 746, 747–I. de Delos 4.1.1758, cf. 4.2.2514 bis; Cic. Verr. 2.5.34; Sall. Hist. 2.98 M, at the end; Fast. Cap., Degrassi 56f., 130, 486f. (L. [Liciniu]s L. f. L. n. Lucullus, M. Au[re]lius M. [f. - n. Cotta]); Eutrop. 6.6; Chr. 354 (Lucullo et Cotta); Fast. Hyd. (Lucullo et Micotta), so also Chr. Pasc.; Cassiod.; on Lucullus, Cic. Cluent. 137; CIL 12.1, p. 196-Inscr. Ital. 13.3.84; Ps.-Ascon. 222 Stangl; and on Cotta, Ascon. 66C. In Rome Lucullus checked the Tribune Quinctius (Sall. Hist. 3.48.11 M; see Tribunes of the Plebs). He had been assigned the province of Cisalpine Gaul, but upon the death of Octavius, Proconsul in Cilicia, early in the year (see Promagistrates), he intrigued to get this province and the command against Mithridates (Plut. Luc. 6-7; App. Mith. 72; cf. Cic. Mur. 33; Acad. 2.1; Sall. Hist. 2.98M, at the end). He received also command of the former armies of Fimbria and of Servilius Isauricus (Cic. Flacc. 85; Sall. Hist. 3.19, and 33M; Plut. Luc. 7.1-3; 34.2; App. Mith. 72; Memnon 40 in FGrH 2 B.356; Porphyr. on Hor. Epist. 2.2.26; Dio 36.14.3, and 15.3, and 16.3, and 46.1), and probably also the province of Asia (Cic. Flacc. 85; Vell. 2.33.1; Plut. Luc. 7.1; Memnon 37 in FGrH 2B.355; cf. Dio 36.2.2; and see 70, Promagistrates, on Lucullus). Cotta received command of a fleet to protect his province of Bithynia and the Propontis, but was defeated on sea and on land, and shut up in Chalcedon until Lucullus relieved him (Cic. Mur. 33; Sall. Hist. 3.23-24M; 4.69.13M; Liv. Per. 93; CIL 12.1, . p. 196-Inser. Ital. 13.3.84; Plut. Luc. 5.1; 6.5; 8.1-3; App. Mith. 71; Menmon 37-39 in FGrH 3B.355f.; Eutrop. 6.6.2; Auct. Vir. Ill. 74.4; Oros. 6.2.13). The latter checked the forces of Mithridates in a battle at the Rhyndacus river, and during the winter of 74-73 brought him to disaster in a trap as he was besieging Cyzicus (Cic. Leg. Man. 20-21; Mur. 33; Sall. Hist. 3.17-42M; 4.69.4 and 13-14M; Liv. Per. 94-95; Inscr. Ital. 13.3.84-ILS 60; Strabo 12.8.11, 575-576c; Diod., excerpt in FHG 2, xxiv; Frontin. Str. 3.13.6; Plut. Luc. 8.1- 12.2, cf. Sert. 24.3-4; App. Mith. 72-76; Flor. 1.40.12-18; Memnon 37-40 in FGrH 3B.355f.; Eutrop. 6.6.2; Oros. 6.2.12-24; cf. CIL 12.2.743–ILS 37). (Broughton MRR II)
  • Cos. 74. Named, almost certainly with Lucullus, in an inscription which dates the restoration of the pavement of the temple of Diana Tifatina (A. Ferrua, AEpig. 1956, no. 37). (Broughton MRR III)
• Proconsul 73 Bithynia, Pontus (Broughton MRR II) Expand
  • Proconsul (CIL 12.2.739). Joining Lucullus and Triarius at Nicomedia, he undertook as his part of the campaign against Mithridates the reduction of the Pontic coast and the siege of Heracleia (Memnon 42-3, in FGrH 3B.358f.). (Broughton MRR II)
• Proconsul 72 Bithynia, Pontus (Broughton MRR II) Expand
  • Proconsul in Bithynia, where he continued for two years prosecuting the siege of Heracleia Pontica (Memnon 47-50, in FGrH 3B.360-362). (Broughton MRR II)
• Proconsul 71 Bithynia (Broughton MRR II) Expand
  • Proconsul in Bithynia, where finally, after a siege of two years, he captured and sacked the city of Heracleia Pontica (Memnon 50-52, in FGrH 3B.362-364). (Broughton MRR II)
• Proconsul 70 Bithynia, Pontus (Broughton MRR II) Expand
  • Proconsul in Bithynia and Pontus (see 73, Promagistrates). After the capture and sack of Heracleia Pontica he returned to Rome, was at first received with honor, but was later accused of appropriation of booty by Papirius Carbo, convicted, and expelled from the Senate (Memnon 52, and 59-60, in FGrH 3B.363f., and 366-368; Val. Max. 5.4.4; Dio 36.40.4). (Broughton MRR II)

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