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Marcus Aurelius Cotta
Marcus Aurelius Cotta was a Roman politician, consul in 74 BCE with Lucius Licinius Lucullus. In the Third Mithridatic War he was defeated by Mithridates VI at Chalcedon, but later besieged Heraclea Pontica and took and sacked it in 70 BCE. On his return to Rome he was prosecuted for keeping booty from the city and expelled from the Senate.
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