Lucius Cotta

Family: Roman · Role: one of the fifteen · First appears: Julius Caesar 79

Life events

• Lucius Cotta proved that two grammatical books were not written by the poet Ennius.(Grammarians 1)
  • With: Ennius
  • “Lucius Cotta has satisfactorily proved that they are not the works of the poet Ennius, but of another writer of the same name”

Julius Caesar 79

• with Julius Caesar (Lucius Cotta was reported to be proposing that Caesar be granted the title of king.) “Lucius Cotta, one of the fifteen, would make a motion, that as there was in the Sibylline books a prophecy, that the Parthians would never be subdued but by a king, Caesar should have that title conferred upon him.”

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Extracted from the original text of The Lives of the Twelve Caesars. Made with Rho MD.