Gnaeus Cornelius Merula

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Gnaeus Cornelius Merula was appointed legatus by the senate in 162—161 BC, to adjust the disputes between the brothers Ptolemy Philometor and Physcon respecting the sovereignty of Cyprus. Merula accompanied Physcon to Crete and Asia Minor, and, after an ineffectual embassy to the elder brother at Alexandria, he induced the senate, on his return to Rome, to cancel the existing treaty with Philometor.

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• Polybius, Histories 31.10, 17-20

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1867).