person
Gaius Aurelius Cotta
Cotta (orator)
also: C. Cotta
Roman orator (124-73 BC), consul 75; an interlocutor in De Oratore as a young man. Cicero's source for the conversation: De Oratore is presented as Cotta's recollection.
Reading notes
- On the Nature of the Gods §1.15 Gaius Cotta
Gaius Aurelius Cotta, consul of 75 BC and a noted orator and pontiff, who speaks for the skeptical Academy and demolishes the Epicurean case in this book. The dialogue is set at his house.