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, who gives originally from that place. On coins of this gens
quite a different account. )
we find the cognomens Muridianus and Sulula,
3. P. CORNELIUS A. F. P. N. Cossus, consular but none occur in history.
COSSETIA'N US CAPITO. (Capito, p. 602,
tribune in B. C. 415. (Liv. iv. 49; Diod. xiii. 34. )
4. CN. CORNELIUS A. F. M. N. Cossus, consular a. ]
tribunc in 1. C. 414, and consul in 409 with L. M. COSSU'TIUS, a Roman knight, a man of
Furius Medullinus II. , the year in which plebcian the greatest respectability and integrity, who lived
quaestors were first created. (Liv. iv. 49, 54 ; | in Sicily during the administration of Verres, and
Diod. xiii. 38. )
defended Xeno before the latter. (Cic. Verr. iii.
5. A. CORNELIUS A. F. M. N. Cossus, brother 22, 80. )
of No. 4, consul in B. C. 413 with L. Furius Me- COSSU'TIUS, a Roman architect, who rebuilt
dullinus. (Lir. iv. 51; Diod. xiii. 43. )
at the expense of Antiochus Epiphanes of Syria
6. P. CORNELIUS A. F. M. N. Cossus, brother the temple of the Olympian Zeus at Athens, about
of Nos. 4 and 5, consular tribune in B. C. 408, in B. c. 168, in the most magnificent Corinthian style.
which year a dictator was appointed on account of The temple, however, in its present form, which
the war with the Volsci and Aequi. (Liv. iv. 56; had been deprived of its pillars by Sulla, was
Diod. xiii. 104. )
finished by Hadrian. (Vitruv. Pracf. vii. ; Liv.
7. P. CORNELIUS M. f. L. N. RUTILUS Cossus, xli. 20; Vell. Pat. i. 10 ; Athen. v. p. 594, a. ;
dictator in B. C. 408, defeated the Volsci near An- Strab. ix. p. 396 ; Plin. II. N. xxxvi. 5; Jacobs,
tium, laid waste their territory, took by storm a Amalth. ii. p. 249; Böckh, Corp. Inscr. i. n. 362,
fort near lake Fucinus, by which he made 3000 363. )
[L. U. ]
prisoners, and then returned to Rome.
He was
CO'TISO, a king of the Dacians, who was con-
consular tribune in B. C. 406. (Liv. iv. 56, 58. ) quered in the reign of Augustus by Lentulus.
8. CN. CORNELIUS P. F. A. N. Cossus, consular (Flor. iv. 12; Hor. Carm. iii. 8. 18. ) He seems
tribune in B. C. 406, when he was left in charge of to be the same as the Cotiso, king of the Getae, to
the city while his colleagues marched against Veii, whom, according to M. Antony, Augustus be-
consular tribune a second time in 404, and a third trothed his daughter Julia, and whose daughter
time in 401, in the last of which years he laid Augustus himself sought in marriage. (Suet. Aug.
waste the country of the Capenates, but the enemy 63. )
did not venture upon a battle. Cossus was a Q. CO'TIUS surnamed ACHILLES on ac-
moderate man in the party struggles of his day. count of his bravery, accompanied, as a legate, the
He caused a third stipendium to be paid to those consul Q. Metellus Macedonicus in his campaign
horsemen, who were not supplied with a horse by against the Celtiberi in Spain, B. c. 143, and dis-
the state, and was supposed to have procured the tinguished himself by slaying two of the enemy in
elevation of his half-brother or cousin, the plebeian single combat. (Val. Max. iii. 2. & 21. )
P. Licinius Calvus, to the consular tribunate in COTTA, AUREʻLIUS. 1. C. ACRELIUS
B. C. 400. (Lir. iv. 58, 61, v. 10, 12. )
Cotta, was consul in B. C. 252, with P. Servilius
9. P. CORNELIUS MALUGINENSIS Cossus, con- Geminus, and both consuls carried on the war in
sular tribune B. C. 395, when he ravaged the ter- Sicily against the Carthaginians with great success.
ritory of the Falisci, and consul in 393 with L. Among several other places they also took Himera,
Valerius Potitus; but he and his colleague were but its inhabitants had been secretly removed by
obliged to resign their office in consequence of the Carthaginians. Afterwards Cotta borrowed
some defect in the election, and L. Lucretius Fla- ships from Hiero, and having united them with
vus Triciptinus and Ser. Sulpicius Camerinus were the remnants of the Roman fleet, he sailed to
appointed in their stead. (Liv. v. 24; Fasti. ) Lipar, the blockade of which he left to his tri-
10. A. Cornelius Cossus, was appointed dic- bune, Q. Cassius, with the express order not to
tator B. c. 385, partly on account of the Volscian engage in a battle ; but, during the absence of
war, but chiefly to crush the designs of Manlius. the consul, Cassius notwithstanding allowed him-
The dictator at first marched against the Volsci, self to be drawn into an engagement, in which
whom he defeated with great slaughter, although many Romans were killed. On being informed of
their forces were augmented by the Latini, Hernici | this Cotta returned to Lipara, besieged and took
and others. He then returned to Rome, threw the town, put its inhabitants to the sword, and
Manlius into prison, and celebrated a triumph for deprived Cassius of his office of tribune. Corta
the victory he had gained over the Volsci. (Liv. vi. was celebrated for the strict discipline which he
11-16. )
inaintained among his troops, and of which sereral
11. A. CORNELIUS Cossus, consular tribune in instances are on record. During the siege of
B. C. 369, and second time in 367, in the latter Lipara one of his own kinsmen, P.
Aurelius Pecu-
of which years the Licinian laws were passed. niola, was scourged and degraded to the rank of a
(Liv. vi. 36, 42. )
common soldier, because through his fault a part
12. A. Cornelius Cossus ARVINA. [ARVINA. ] of the camp was set on fire, in consequence of
COSSUẤTIA, the first wife of C. Julius Caesar, which almost the whole camp fell into the hands of
belonged to an equestrian family, and was very the enemy. It was probably during the same
rich. She was betrothed to Caesar by his parents, campaign, that he acted with great rigour towards
while he was very young, but was divorced by the equites who refused to obey his commands.
him in his seventeenth year, that he might marry (Frontin. Strateg. iv. 1. & 22. ) At the close of his
Cornelia, the daughter of Cinna. (Suet. Cues. 1. ) consulship Cotta triumphed over the Carthaginians
COSSU'TIA GENS of equestrian rank (Suet. I and Sicilians. In 248 he obtained the consulship
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COTTA.
a second time, together with his former colleagnic, 5. $ 4, viii. 1. $ 11; Cic. pro Muren. 28, pro Font.
P. Servilius Geminus, and again fought in Sicily 13, Brut. 21, Divin in Cuecil. 21 ; Tacit. Ann. iii.
against the Carthaginians. Carthalo in vain en- 66. )
deavoured to make a diversion by attacking the 7. L. AURELIUS Cotta, was consul in 1. c. 119,
coasts of Italy ; but further particulars are not and proposed in the sennie that C. Marius, who
known about him. (Zonar. viii. 14, 16; Oros. was then tribune of the people, should be called to
iv. 9; Cic. Acud. ii. 26 ; Frontin. Strateg. iv. 1. account for a law (lex Marin) which he had brought
§ 31; Val. Max. ii. 7. § 4 ; Fast. Capit. ) forward relative to the voting in the comitia, and
2. M. AURELIUS Cotta, was plebian aedile in which was levelled at the influence of the opti-
B. c. 216, and had in 212 the command of a de- mates. Marius, who was summoned accordingly,
tachment at Putcoli under the consul App. Clau- appeared in the senatc, but, instead of defending
dius Pulcher. Nine years later, B. c. 203, he was himself, thrcatened Cotta with imprisonment unless
appointed decemvir sacrorum, in the place of M. he withdrew his motion. L. Caecilius Metellus,
Pomponius Matho. The year after this he was the other consul, who supported Cotta, was really
sent as ambassador to Philip of Macedonia, and thrown into prison by the command of Marius,
protected the Roman allies who had to suffer from none of whose colleagues would listen to the appeal
the inroads of the Macedonians. After the con- of the consul, so that the senate was compelied to
clusion of the war against Carthage, he urged the yield. (Plut. Mar. 4 ; Cic. de Leg. iii. 17. ) From
necessity of proceeding with energy against Philip. Appian (Illyr. 10) it might seem as if Cotta had
He died, in B. C. 201, as decemvir sacrorum, in taken part with his colleague Metellus in the war
which office he was succeeded by M'. Acilius Gla- against the Illyrians, but it may also be that Ap-
brio. (Liv. xxiii. 30, xxv. 22, xxix. 38, xxx. 26, pian mentions his name only as the consul of that
42, xxxi. 3, 5, 50. )
year, without wishing to suggest anything further.
3. C. AURELIUS Cotta, was praetor urbanus, 8. L. AURELIUS Cotta, was tribune of the
in B. C. 202, and consul in 200, with P. Sulpicius people in B. c. 95, together with T. Didius and C.
Galba. He obtained Italy as his province, and Norbanus. When the last of them brought for-
with it the command in the war against the ward an accusation against Q. Caepio, Cotta and
Boians, Insubrians and Cenomanians, who, under Didius attempted to interfere, but Cotta was pulled
the command of Hamilcar, a Carthaginian, had in- down by force from the tribunal (templum). He
vaded the Roman dominion. The praetor, L. must afterwards have held the office of praetor,
Furius Purpureo, however, had the merit of con- since Cicero calls him a praetorius. Cicero speaks
quering the enemies ; and Cotta, who was indig- of him several times, and mentions him as a friend
nant at the laurels being snatched from him, occu- of Q. Lutatius Catulus ; he places him among the
pied himself chiefly with plundering and ravaging orators of mediocrity, and states that in his speeches
the country of the enemy, and gained more booty he purposely abstained from all refinement, and
than glory, while the praetor Furius was honoured gloried in a certain coarseness and rusticity which
with a triumph. (Liv. Xxx. 26, 27, xxxi. 5, 6, more resembled the style of an uneducated peasant,
10, 11, 21, 22, 47, 49; Zonar. ix. 15; Oros. iv. than that of the earlier Roman orators. (Cic. de
20. )
Orat. ii. 47, iii. 11, 12, Brul. 36, 74).
4. M. AURELIUS COTTA, was legate of L. Cor- 9. C. AURELIUS COTTA, brother of No. 8, was
nelius Scipio, in B. C. 189, during the war against born in B. c. 124, and was the son of Rutilia. He
Antiochus. He returned to Rome with the am- was a friend of the tribune M. Livius Drusus, who
bassadors of Antiochus, with Eumenes and the was murdered in B. c. 91; and in the same year he
Rhodians, to report to the senate the state of affairs sued for the tribuneship, but was rejected, and a
in the East. (Liv. xxxvii. 52. )
few months afterwards went into voluntary exile
5. L. AURELIUS Cotta, was tribune of the to avoid being condemned by the lex Varia, which
soldiers, in B. c. 181, and commanded, together ordained that an inquiry should be made as to who
with Sex. Julius Caesar, the third legion in the had either publicly or privately supported the
war against the Ligurians. (Liv. xl. 27. ) claims of the Italian allies in their demand of the
6. L. AURELIUS Cotta, was tribune of the peo- franchise. Cotta did not return to Rome till the
ple in B. c. 154, and in reliance on the inviolable year B. C. 82, when Sulla was dictator, and in 75
character of his office he refused paying his credi- he obtained the consulship, together with L. Octa-
tors, whereupon however his colleagues declared, vius. In that year he excited the hostility of the
that unless he satisfied the creditors they would sup- optimates by a law by which he endeavoured to
port them in their claims. In B. c. 144, he was con- raise the tribuneship from the condition into which
sul together with Ser. Sulpicius Galba, and disput- it had been thrown by Sulla. The exact nature
ed in the senate which of them was to obtain the of this law, however, is not certain. (Cic. Fragm.
command against Viriathus in Spain ; but Scipio Cornel. p. 80 ed. Orelli, with the note of Arcon. ;
Aemilianus carried a decree that neither of them Sallust, Hist. Fragm. p. 210, ed. Gerlach. ) A
should be sent to Spain, and the command in that lex de judiciis privatis of Cotta is likewise men-
country was accordingly prolonged to the pro- tioned by Cicero, (Frugm. Corn. p. 448,) which, how-
consul Fabius Maximus Aemilianus. Subsequently ever, was abolished the year after by his brother. In
Cotta was accused by Scipio Aemilianus, and al- his consulship Cotta also concluded a treaty with
though he was guilty of glaring acts of injustice Hiempsal of Mauretania. On the expiration of his
he was acquitted, merely because the judges wished office he obtained Gaul for his province, and al-
to avoid the appearance of Cotta having been crushed though he did not carry on any real war in it, lie
by the overwhelming influence of his accuser. yet demanded a triumph on his return.
Cotta was defended on that occasion by Q. Metell quest was granted, but on the day before the
lus Macedonicus. Cicero states that Cotta was solemnity was to take place, a wound which he
considered a veterator, that is, a man cunning in bad received many years before burst open, in con-
managing his own affairs. (Val. Max. vi.