person
Marcus Aurelius Cotta
M. Cotta
also: Marcum Cottam, M. Aurelius Cotta
Consul of 74 BC, brother of Gaius Cotta; defeated by Mithridates by land and sea at Chalcedon early in the Third Mithridatic War, as the king boasts in his letter.
Reading notes
- The Histories §Mithr.3 Marcus Cotta
Marcus Aurelius Cotta, consul of 74 BC, beaten by Mithridates at Chalcedon; brother of the consul Gaius Cotta.