Lucius Octavius edit

Career

1. 78 BCE
   Praetor edit

   The latest date possible under the Cornelian law.

2. 75 BCE
   Consul edit

   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).

Family