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aemŭlus , a, um, adj. cf. ἁμιλλάομαι and ἅμα, imitor, imago, Germ. ahmen (Eng. aim) in nachahmen = to imitate,
I.striving after another earnestly, emulating, rivalling, emulous (cf. aemulatio and aemulor), in a good and bad sense; constr. with dat. or as subst. with gen.
I. In a good sense, Att. ap. Auct. Her, 2, 26, 42: “laudum,Cic. Phil. 2, 12: “laudis,id. Cael. 14: “aemulus atque imitator studiorum ac laborum,id. Marc. 1: “Timagenis aemula lingua,Hor. Ep. 1, 19, 15: “itinerum Herculis,Liv. 21, 41.—With ne and subj.: milites aemuli, ne dissimiles viderentur, Aur. Vict Caes. 8, 3.—
II. In a bad sense, both of one who, with a hostile feeling, strives after the possessions of another, and of one who, on account of his strong desire for a thing, envies him who possesses it; envious, jealous, grudging.— With gen.: Karthago aemula imperii Romani, Sall C. 10; Vell. 2, 1: “Triton,Verg. A. 6, 173: “quem remoto aemulo aequiorem sibi sperabat,Tac. A. 3, 8: “Britannici,Suet. Ner. 6.—
III. Subst., a rival = rivalis: mihi es aemula, you are my rival (i. e. you have the same desire as I), Plaut. Rud. 1, 4, 20; Ter. Eun. 4, 1, 9; cf. id. ib. 2, 1, 8; “si non tamquam virum, at tamquam aemulum removisset,Cic. Verr 2, 5, 31: et si nulla subest aemula, languet amor, Ov A. A. 2, 436.—By meton. (eccl.), an enemy: “videbis aemulum tuum in templo,Vulg. 1 Reg. 2, 32; “affligebat eam aemula,ib. 1, 6.— In gen., mostly of things without life, vying with, rivalling a thing, i. e. comparable to, similar to, with dat., v. Rudd. II. p. 70 (poet., and in prose after the Aug. per.): “tibia tubae Aemula,Hor. A. P. 203: “labra rosis,Mart. 4, 42: “Tuscis vina cadis,id. 13, 118; Plin. 9, 17, 29, § 63; id. 15, 18, 19, § 68 al.: “Dictator Caesar summis oratoribus aemulus, i. e. aequiparandus,Tac. A. 13, 3.!*? Facta dictaque ejus aemulus for aemulans, Sall. Fragm. Hist. 3 (cf. celatum indagator for indagans in Plaut. Trin. 2, 1, 15, unless celatum be here a gen.).
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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (14):
    • Old Testament, 1 Samuel, 2.32
    • Cicero, For Marcus Caelius, 14
    • Cicero, Philippics, 2.12
    • Plautus, Rudens, 1.4
    • Plautus, Trinummus, 2.1
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 6.173
    • Suetonius, Nero, 6
    • Horace, Ars Poetica, 203
    • Tacitus, Annales, 13.3
    • Tacitus, Annales, 3.8
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 9.63
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 21, 41
    • Martial, Epigrammata, 13.118
    • Martial, Epigrammata, 4.42
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