person
Lucius Varius Cotyla
Cotyla
also: Cotylo, Cotyla, Cotylonem
An aedilician partisan and table-companion of Mark Antony, the one man Cicero says was found to defend Antony before the Senate. Antony later sent him as an envoy to Lepidus.
Reading notes
- Fifth Philippic §5 Cotyla
L. Varius Cotyla, an aedilician crony of Antony; Cicero presents him as the sole defender Antony could once muster, now embarrassingly joined by consular patrons.
- Eighth Philippic §24 Cotyla
L. Varius Cotyla, an aedilician intimate of Antony sent as his envoy to Rome; Cicero recalls that Antony's slaves once flogged him at a banquet. The contrast between his reception and the rebuff given Rome's own legates is the point of the section.