aemulabantur
Dictionary entries
- Entry →aemulo, aemulare, aemulavi, aemulatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Lewis & Short
ape, imitate, emulate; be envious, jealous of, vie with a rival; copy (book);
pl. imperf. pass. ind. 3rd - Entry →aemulor, aemulari, aemulatus sum:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Deponent
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
ape, imitate, emulate; be envious, jealous of, vie with a rival; copy (book);
pl. imperf. ind. 3rd
Examples
- M
Liber XII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...consumptus est, passim qui oderant, qui invidebant, qui aemulabantur, adulatores etiam praesentis potentiae non responsurum invaserunt. Ille tamen..." - P
Liber XII
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...utraque impudica, infamis, violenta, haud minus vitiis aemulabantur quam si qua ex fortuna prospera acceperant. enimvero certamen acerrimum..." - P
Liber II
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from HISTORIAE
"...saepius vi perpulerant, ac pleraque municipia et coloniae aemulabantur corruptissimum quemque adulescentium pretio inlicere. Sed Vitellius adventu fratris..." - G
Panegyricus
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger)
"...Caesarum munera illitos cibis hamos, opertos praeda laqueos, aemulabantur; quum privatis facultatibus velut hausta et implicata, retro secum..."