Lucius Aurelius Cotta

Lucius Aurelius Cotta was a politician of the late Roman Republic.

The brother of Gaius and Marcus Aurelius Cotta, consuls of the years 75 and 74 BC, was in the year 70 BC, praetor. In this office he made by the lex Aurelia iudiciaria for a reform of the jury system.

In the year 66 BC, he complained together with L. Manlius Torquatus successfully designate consuls of the following year because of election fraud to and became consul for the year 65 BC Already in the following year he was censor, but had to post-conflict the tribunes of the people to give up the office early.

Cotta was still alive in the year 44 BC, in which he intended to ask for the Parthian war, the proclamation of Caesar to the king as Quindecimvir sacris faciundis allegedly.