Cotta
Aurelius.
1.
Gaius, consul B.C. 75 with L. Octavius, was one of
the most distinguished orators of his time, and is introduced by Cicero as one of the
speakers in the treatises
De Oratore and
De Natura Deorum.
2.
Lucius, praetor in B.C. 70, when he carried the celebrated law
(
lex Aurelia iudiciaria), which intrusted the
iudicia to
the senators, equites, and tribuni aerarii.
3.
L. Aurunculēius. One of Caesar's legates in Gaul, who
perished with Sabinus in the attack made upon them by Ambiorix, B.C. 54. See
Ambiorix.