Lucius Cornelius Merula (Consul 193 BC)

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Lucius Cornelius Merula was a politician in the Roman Republic .

As city praetor in 198 BC He suppressed a slave revolt. 193 BC He was consul with Quintus Minucius Thermus . He won over the Celtic Boier at Mutina , but could not celebrate a triumph .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ For a political career see T. Robert S. Broughton : The Magistrates Of The Roman Republic. Volume 1: 509 BC - 100 BC (= Philological Monographs. Vol. 15, Part 1, ZDB -ID 418575-4 ). American Philological Association, New York NY 1951, pp. 330-332, pp. 346, (Unchanged reprint 1968).
  2. ↑ Livy XXXII 26: 4-18
  3. ↑ Livy XXXIX 54.1
  4. ↑ Livy XXXIV, 55.6 and 56.12-13; XXXV 4-5 and 6.5-9
  5. ↑ Livy XXXV 8
personal data
SURNAME Cornelius Merula, Lucius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Merula, Lucius Cornelius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman politician
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 2nd century BC Chr.