Lucius Aurelius Orestes (

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, ''Lucius Aurelius L. f. L. n. Orestes'') was a

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and

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in the service of the

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. He was consul in the year 157 BC together with Sextus Julius Caesar. He was further mentioned in the Roman Fasti and by Gaius Plinius Secundus in his work ''Historia Naturalis''.H. N. xxxiii. 3. s. 17

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