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Marcus Aurelius Cotta (cos. 74)

Consul in 74 BCE

🏛️ Career

  1. 77 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. Licinius Lucullus (1 year; raw 4.00, base 0.800, final 0.800): 74 BCE (Consul)

    Cn. Aufidius Orestes (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.600, final 0.600): 77 BCE (Praetor)

    M. Junius Silanus (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.600, final 0.600): 77 BCE (Praetor)

    Sex. Peducaeus (pr. 77) (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.600, final 0.600): 77 BCE (Praetor)

    C. Verres (1 year; raw 2.00, base 0.400, final 0.400): 74 BCE (Praetor)

  2. 74 BCE
    Consul · Co-consul: L. Licinius Lucullus

    Broughton: In Rome Lucullus checked the Tribune Quinctius (a; 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 (b). He received also command of the former armies of Fimbria and of Servilius Isauricus (c), and probably also the province of Asia (d; 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 (e). 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 (f).

    Sources (7)
    • Broughton, MRR2
      • 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.
      • (a) Sall. Hist. 3.48.11 M
      • (b) Plut. Luc. 6-7; App. Mith. 72; cf. Cic. Mur. 33; Acad. 2.1; Sall. Hist. 2.98M, at the end
      • (c) 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
      • (d) Cic. Flacc. 85; Vell. 2.33.1; Plut. Luc. 7.1; Memnon 37 in FGrH 2B.355; cf. Dio 36.2.2
      • (e) 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
      • (f) 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
    Career-overlap (5) Magistrates with the closest career overlap; red font indicates family member

    L. Licinius Lucullus (1 year; raw 4.00, base 0.800, final 0.800): 74 BCE (Consul)

    Cn. Aufidius Orestes (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.600, final 0.600): 77 BCE (Praetor)

    M. Junius Silanus (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.600, final 0.600): 77 BCE (Praetor)

    Sex. Peducaeus (pr. 77) (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.600, final 0.600): 77 BCE (Praetor)

    C. Verres (1 year; raw 2.00, base 0.400, final 0.400): 74 BCE (Praetor)

🏺 Family

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