Cotta
historical figure · 2 works · 8 mentions · 17 anchored passages
C. Cotta · her son · her son Cotta · him
in the texts
On the Nature of the Gods
The Academic skeptic and pontiff who responds to Velleius's Epicurean exposition, arguing point by point against atomism and the anthropomorphic conception of the gods.
And so I myself, a pontiff, who hold that the public ceremonies and rites of religion must be most scrupulously maintained, should like to be convinced of this first point — that the gods exist — not by opinion only but according to the very truth.
yet, once they have been stated, what is there that Velleius can understand and Cotta cannot?
for it is agreed by almost all, and by me first of all, that the gods exist.
Consolation to Helvia
Son of Rutilia, exiled and later restored to prominence in the state before his death.
Rutilia followed her son Cotta into exile and was so bound by her devotion that she chose to suffer exile rather than the longing for him, and did not return to her country until she returned with her son.