Gaius Aurelius Cotta (consul 200 BC)

Not to be confused with Gaius Aurelius Cotta (consul 252 BC).

Gaius Aurelius Cotta was a Roman politician in the second century BC.

Family

He was a member of the plebeian gens Aurelia. Gaius Aurelius Cotta, consul of 252 and 248 BC, may have been a relative.

Career

In 220 BC, he served as praetor, and in 202 BC, he served as urban praetor. In the year 200 BC, he was elected consul together with Publius Sulpicius Galba Maximus as his colleague.[1] In that year, Cotta was sent to Cisalpine Gaul to fight a rebellion of Gauls led by a Carthaginian named Hamilcar. The Gauls plundered Placentia and besieged Cremona.[2] Cotta dispatched the praetor Lucius Furius Purpureo to deal with them. By the time Cotta arrived, Purpureo had already defeated the Gauls.[3]

References

  1. ^ Fasti Capitolini
  2. ^ Titus Livius, XXXI, 10–11
  3. ^ Charles Ludwig Elvers, The New Pauly's Encyclopedia of Classical Antiquity, Vol. 2, p. 320


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