Gaius Aurelius Cotta was a Roman politician in the second century BC.
Gaius Aurelius Cotta, consul of 252 and 248 BC, may have been a relative.
In the year 200 BC, he was elected consul together with Publius Sulpicius Galba Maximus as his colleague.
[2] Cotta dispatched the praetor Lucius Furius Purpureo to deal with them.
By the time Cotta arrived, Purpureo had already defeated the Gauls.