Merenda
3. SERVIUS CORNELIUS MERENDA, was legatus in B. C. 275, to the consul L. Cornelius Lentulus [LENTULUS, No. 5], and was presented by him, for the capture of a town in Sanmium, with a golden chaplet of five pounds' weight. In the following year Merenda was consul, and again commanded in Samnium and Lucania. (Plin. Nat. 33.11; Fasti.)
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