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.)
[W.B.D]A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology
Smith, William
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. William Smith, LLD, ed. 1890