Cotiso

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Cotiso (approximately 30 BC) was a Dacian king who ruled the mountains between Banat and Oltenia (modern-day Romania). Florus wrote that Cotiso and his armies used to attack towards south when the Danube froze. Suetonius (LXIII, Life of Augustus) says Marcus Antonius wrote that Augustus betrothed his daughter Julia to marry Cotiso (M. Antonius scribit primum eum Antonio filio suo despondisse Iuliam, dein Cotisoni Getarum regi) to create an alliance between the two men. This failed when Cotiso betrayed Augustus. Julia ended up marrying her cousin Marcus Claudius Marcellus. After Caesar Augustus's victory in the civil wars, the Romans punished the Dacian ruler, who was defeated by general Marcus Licinius Crassus. In an ode dedicated to his protector, Horatius advises him not to worry about Rome's safety, because Cotiso's army had perished.