Lucius Cornelius Merula (consul 193 BC)
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Lucius Cornelius L. f. Merula was consul of the Roman Republic, along with Quintus Minucius Thermus, in 193 BC. His province was Gallia Cisalpina. Merula closed an active predatory campaign by a total defeat of the Boian Gauls in the neighbourhood of Mutina. Since his staff officer Marcus Claudius Marcellus accused him of a delay in sending forward a reserve unit, resulting in several thousand unnecessary casualties and the escape of many enemy soldiers, the senate refused him a triumph.
References
- Livy, Ab Urbe Condita [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12582/12582-h/12582-h.htm#h54 34.54-57], [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12582/12582-h/12582-h.htm#i4 35.4-8]
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| title = Consul of the Roman Republic
| years = with Quintus Minucius Thermus
193 BC
| before = Publius Cornelius P.f. Scipio Africanus II and Tiberius Sempronius Ti.f. Longus
| after = Lucius Quinctius T.f. Flamininus, Gnaeus Domitius L.f. Ahenobarbus
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Category:2nd-century BC Roman consuls
Category:Ancient Roman patricians
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