Merula
was a surname of the Gens Cornelia at Rome. It signifies an ouzle or blackbird. (Varr. R. R. 3.2. §§ 2. 38; Quint. Inst. 1.6.38.) The following Cornelii Merulae occur in history:--
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.