aemulus

aemŭlus, a, um, adj. [cf. hamillaomai and hama, imitor, imago, Germ. ahmen (Eng. aim) in nachahmen = to imitate], 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. ).