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Gaius Aurelius Cotta (cos. 75)

Consul in 75 BCE

🏛️ Career

  1. 78 BCE
    Praetor

    Broughton: The latest date possible under the Cornelian law

    Sources (1)
    • MRR2
    Career-overlap (5) Magistrates with the closest career overlap; red font indicates family member

    L. Octavius (2 years; raw 7.00, base 1.400, final 1.400): 78 BCE (Praetor) , 75 BCE (Consul)

    L. Licinius Lucullus (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.600, final 0.600): 78 BCE (Praetor)

    L. Valerius Trianius (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.600, final 0.600): 78 BCE (Praetor)

    Terentius Varro (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.600, final 0.600): 78 BCE (Praetor)

    C. Licinius Sacerdos (1 year; raw 2.00, base 0.400, final 0.400): 75 BCE (Praetor)

  2. 75 BCE
    Consul · Co-consul: L. Octavius

    Broughton: Cotta carried a law permitting Tribunes of the Plebs to attain other magistracies (a). He also concluded a treaty with King Hiempsal of Numidia (b), and carried two laws, one affecting private cases (c), and the other censorial leases (d), both abrogated the following year. A shortage in the grain supply occasioned the speech recorded in Sallust (e).

    Sources (6)
    • Broughton, MRR2
      • CIL 12.2.953; Cic. Verr. 2.1.130, and 3.18; Sall. Hist. 2.42M; Fast. Cap., Degrassi 56f., 130, 486 f. (L. O[cta]vius Cn. f. Cn. n., C. Aur[el]ius M. f. [- n. C]ot [ta]); Obseq. 60; Chr. 354 (Octavio et Cotta); Cassiod.; and on Cotta, Cic. Pis. 62; Ascon. 66 C.
      • (a) Cic. Corn. in Ascon. 66, and 7SC; Sall. Hist. 2.49M; 3.48.8M; cf. Ps.-Ascon. 255 Stangi
      • (b) Cic. Leg. Agr. 2.58
      • (c) Cic. Corn. 1.9 and Ascon. 66C
      • (d) Cic. Verr. 2.3.19, cf. 18 and 130; cf. Ps.-Ascon. 251 Stangl
      • (e) Sall. Hist. 2.44-48M
    Career-overlap (5) Magistrates with the closest career overlap; red font indicates family member

    L. Octavius (2 years; raw 7.00, base 1.400, final 1.400): 78 BCE (Praetor) , 75 BCE (Consul)

    L. Licinius Lucullus (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.600, final 0.600): 78 BCE (Praetor)

    L. Valerius Trianius (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.600, final 0.600): 78 BCE (Praetor)

    Terentius Varro (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.600, final 0.600): 78 BCE (Praetor)

    C. Licinius Sacerdos (1 year; raw 2.00, base 0.400, final 0.400): 75 BCE (Praetor)

🏺 Family

  1. Siblings
    Lucius Aurelius Cotta (cos. 65)