Digital Prosopography of the Roman Republic

CORN1091 L. Cornelius (270) L. f. Merula

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Status

• Patrician

Life Dates

• 228?, birth (Develin 1979) Expand

  Develin no. 154.

Career

• Praetor 198 urbanus, Rome (Broughton MRR I) Expand
  • Election Liv. 32.7.13 Provinces and armies 32.8.5-8. (Broughton MRR I)
  • He is given the cognomen Lentulus by mistake in Liv. 32.26.8 and Zon. 9.16. (Broughton MRR I)
  • Suppressed a conspiracy of slaves and Carthaginian hostages (Liv. 32.26.4-18). (Broughton MRR I)
  • p. 729 (Brennan 2000)
• Triumvir Coloniis Deducendis 194 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
  • Colonized Tempsa (Liv. 34.45.3-5). (Broughton MRR I)
• Consul 193 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
  • Nep. Hann. 8.1; Liv. 34.54.1; Fast. Cap., Degrassi 48f., 121, 454f.; Chr. 354; Fast. Hyd.; Chr. Pasc.; and on Minucius, Frontin. Str. 1.5.16. Merula was assigned the Gallic province and made war on the Boii (Liv. 34.55.6, and 56.12-13; 35.4-5, and 6.5-9), but was refused a triumph (Liv. 35.8). Minucius campaigned against the Ligurians, using Pisa as a base, but with little success (Liv. 34.55.6, and 56.3-7; 35.3.1-6, and 6.1-4, and 11.1-13; cf. FOR 1.167-169; Frontin. Str. 1.5.16; Oros. 4.20.17). (Broughton MRR I)

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