person
Marcus Aurelius Cotta Maximus
Cotta Maximus
also: Cotta, Maximus Cotta
Younger son of Messalla Corvinus and one of Ovid's chief patrons and friends; addressee of several letters from exile.
Reading notes
- Letters from the Black Sea §1.5 Maximus
Marcus Aurelius Cotta Maximus, younger son of Messalla Corvinus and a chief patron of Ovid; addressee of this poem on why he still writes verse in exile.
- Letters from the Black Sea §1.7 there is a brother
Cotta Maximus, Messalinus's brother and Ovid's patron; Ovid invokes their bond, as close as that of the sons of Atreus and of Tyndareus.
- Letters from the Black Sea §1.9 Maximus
Cotta Maximus, who sent news of Celsus's death and performed his funeral rites; Ovid trusts that one who honors the dead will not forget the exiled.