Lucius Aurelius Cotta (consul 65 BC)
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Lucius Aurelius Cotta was a
While praetor in 70 BC, he brought in a law for the reform of the jury lists, by which the judices were to be selected, not from the senators exclusively as limited by Sulla, but from senators, equites and tribuni aerarii.[1]
One-third were to be senators, and two-thirds men of
After the suppression of the Catilinarian conspiracy, Cotta proposed a public thanksgiving for Cicero's services, and after the latter had gone into exile, supported the view that there was no need of a law for his recall, since the law of Clodius was legally worthless.[1]
He subsequently attached himself to his nephew, Caesar, and it was reported that Cotta (who was then quindecimvir) intended to propose that Caesar should receive the title of king, it being written in the Sibylline Oracles that the Parthians could only be defeated by a king. Cotta's intention was not carried out in consequence of Caesar's assassination, after which he retired from public life.[1]
See also
References
- ^ a b c d Chisholm 1911.
- public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Cotta, Gaius Aurelius § Lucius Aurelius Cotta". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 7 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 252. This article in turn cites:
- Cicero, Orellis Onomasticon
- Sallust, Catiline, 18
- Sallust, Suetonius
- Sallust, Caesar, 79
- Livy, Epit. 97
- Velleius Paterculus ii.32
- Dio Cassiusxxxvi.44, xxxvii.1
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