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Cotiso
Cotiso or Cotison (flourished c. 30 BC) was a Dacian king who apparently ruled the mountains between Banat and Oltenia (modern-day Romania). Horace calls him king of the Dacians.〔John T. White, D.D. Oxon (1875) 70〕 Suetonius calls him king of the Getae.〔 He is mentioned also by Florus, who wrote that Cotiso and his armies used to attack towards south when the Danube froze.
Several scholars believe he is identical to Coson, a Dacian king whose name appears on many gold Staters found in Transylvania.
==Background==
After the death of Burebista, the Dacian kingdom fell apart amid turnoil and civil strife. Cotiso appears to have emerged as the dominant figure in Dacia at this time, but nothing is known about his background. The new king found himself courted by the two Roman antagonists, Octavian and Mark Antony. Cotiso was in a strong position to dictate terms of any alliance to either of the conflicting parties. Octavian/Augustus worried about the frontier and possible alliance between Mark Antony and the Dacians, and plotted an expedition around 35 BC. Despite several small conflicts, no serious campaigns were mounted. Cotiso chose to ally himself with Antony. According to Alban Dewes Winspear and Lenore Kramp Geweke he "proposed that the war should be fought in Macedonia rather than Epirus. Had his proposal been accepted, the subjection of Antonius might have been less easily accomplished."〔Alban Dewes Winspear, Lenore Kramp Geweke, ''Augustus and the Reconstruction of Roman Government and Society'', University of Wisconsin Press, 1935 p.252.〕
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